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How much do you know about Turkeys? Do you know that they are closely related to ducks? Do you know what a snood is? Well it turns out that there are things about turkeys and their relatives that you might not want to know, but I'm going to tell you anyway! I bet you'll never look at birds the same way again...
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[@ClintsReptiles]

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[@teresatanasi5143]

I have had turkeys for feather sales, pets and to sell poults for around 14 years now. Truly beautiful, interesting birds:) They can actually be very personable.

[@aussiekingofmongrels]

Pavo real means “Royal turkey” or “regal turkey” it is because the feathers have a royal blue hue :)

[@ClintsReptiles]

​@@aussiekingofmongrelsthat's a common misconception among Spanish speaking people. It's called "pavo real" because peacocks were "pavo" long before any Spanish speaking person ever saw a turkey. When turkeys were first encountered by Spanish speaking people, they called it, essentially, a peacock (because that was the most similar animal that they knew). Today both are "pavo". To denote the difference they are essentially called the "peacock", and the "real peacock". Because "real peacocks" are so extravagant, and because "real" in Spanish can mean real or royal, and because most people don't know this history, they assume that the "real" means royal, but that is incorrect.

[@GloryToComradeForster]

Here's a video idea. Clint reviews how accurate the 1993 Super Mario Bros Movie is with Dinosaurs.

[@SamsonFernendez]

Stop normalising products of animal exploitation

[@Exquailibur]

I love how there were probably just regular ducks around when Trex was chillin, like seriously the fact that there could have been ducks hanging out in a pond next to a trex is so goofy to me.

[@jamespike5161]

Duck Duck Goose? 👎 Duck Duck Tyrannosaur. 👍

[@scottwells8064]

I imagine those ducks fled with a quickness from juvenile T-Rex, but didn't sweat the presence of adults, who wouldn't bother chasing down such a small animal.

[@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural]

And they were all theropod dinosaurs, lol

[@NitroIndigo]

Vegavis?

[@TylerDollarhide]

​@@scottwells8064like the squirrels who often go into the enclosures of tigers and lions, knowing that they're too small of prey for them to care.

[@bonecanoe86]

One of my favorite "mind-blow" facts to tell people is that there are technically more species of dinosaurs alive TODAY than species of mammals. (10,000+ birds vs 5,400+ mammals)

[@Evergreen_Wizard]

Yes! Earth is still a dinosaur planet.

[@patrickcote4521]

That blows my mind, but so true 🤯

[@junovzla]

and in fact there are more species of dinosaur today than there were during the age of the dinosaurs! (even accounting for the fact that the fossile record is necessarily incomplete!!!)

[@paul-gs4be]

@@junovzla surely not more than all the dinosaur species that existed for the entire 165 million year age of the dinosaurs.

[@rdizzy1]

@@junovzla Ehh, that estimate using TRiPS is still very very likely to be extremely low, even the highest estimate, as it is still using available fossils as a base point.

[@rkozakand]

Franklin was just as promiscuous as any turkey. His treatise on the virtues of the turkey was actually a satire directed at a local patriotic club whose symbol was an eagle that was so badly drawn that it more closely resembled a turkey.

[@IceGangsta]

Pretty funny backstory lol, almost like a meme from the past

[@TheSapphireLeo]

@@IceGangsta Cruel to the animals, and not funny?

[@margodphd]

​@@TheSapphireLeoWe are still cruel to animals, AND on much bigger scale too.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

​@@TheSapphireLeohow is something that doesn't affect the animal, and doesn't hurt anyone or anything, supposedly "cruel‽" There's certainly no violence, nor is there any food or water deprivation, or anything else cruel. It sounded like, if this is true, it was a joke. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Big deal. 🙄😒

[@rallyfeind]

​@@TheSapphireLeo You are the reason people decided to go cannibal. They have to hear you and decide that humans probably taste way better than they sound...

[@sickcat-nu4ci]

I love when Clint gets SO unhinged

[@bronhaller]

He is PERFECTION!

[@Melisski]

I know - in his early videos he’s so reserved and now it’s like he’s completely let loose. He’s graduated from Mr. Rogers to full Steve Irwin lol. Clint’s definitely one of my favorite living animal educators! 😊

[@vivianramsay2527]

True!🤩

[@aandreiws2]

AI Clint could never match this 😂

[@user-xl6so2ey6e]

His enthusiasm is why I watch. Entertainment and education 👍🏻

[@glorygloryholeallelujah]

*”When did this become a discussion about corkscrew penises?!?!”* Dude, if I had a dollar for every time one our family’s thanksgivings devolved into chaos and ended with someone yelling that….😂❤

[@ClintsReptiles]

😂

[@katiekane5247]

I first saw one as a teenager, before the Internet. I refused to believe it was an actual penis! Sheltered childhood 😂

[@MeAuntieNora]

​@katiekane5247 flew right over my head as I rode my bike. I thought its intestine was hanging out or something.

[@thequietpart_]

I’d have two dollars, which isn’t a lot but how odd that it happened twice?

[@primalfiregodzilla5052]

I have 12 dollars Not because this has happened but because I saved 12 whole dollars

[@karlrobertosterman]

If there is an award for funniest zoologist, you have attained it. You have no equal in that regard!

[@ClintsReptiles]

Please make one!

[@deed5811]

​@@ClintsReptilesYou know the trophy HAS to say " Funniest Zoologist, if you're into that kind of thing" 😉

[@michelles1250]

​@@deed5811YES 🎉

[@Wispertile]

And Happiest too!! 🙌🏻🫶

[@furiouskaiser9914]

Well, Mr. Funniest Zoologist missed the opportunity of calling the screamer a 'gooster' 😅

[@AResurrectedWreck]

A snood is a type of knit hairnet, and if you google ‘snood’ you’ll see some of them do resemble the shape of a turkey’s snood. Since the snood was worn in Europe as far back as the Middle Ages, I imagine the European settlers named the turkey’s snood after the clothing article. Great video as always!

[@TheSeptemberRose]

I was going to talk about that too!

[@fossilfightersfanforever7243]

it's also what they call a sort of hairnet for showdogs with long, furry ears to wear while they drink water or eat, to protect the fur!

[@drinkmoresoda]

It's a subtle joke

[@fju1107]

Clint's infectious enthusiasm makes me regret not following my childhood dream of becoming a zoologist! But I'm so happy to have found his channel so I can live vicariously through him!

[@alioramus1637]

That's was and still is my dream too. I always wanted to become a paleontologist, zoologist or evolutionary biologist. But the academic requirements were to difficult for me. So i teach myself in the hope that i can one day contribute to the sciences. You can too.

[@silviarossi2690]

Omg same 😭

[@wilhelmredhood7296]

You still can mate! Especially today with lots of uni’s offering off campus, online undergraduate studies. Eventually you have to get involved on campus to get a properly rounded qualification, but you can do a lot of the first-year units online. Gives you a chance to see if you really want to do it, before committing your life to it. I am about to turn 40, and after losing my job in the tech sector last year, I decided I wanted to give palaeontology a go and actually chase my childhood dreams, after 20 years of working my ass off in various roles for other people’s dreams and zero gratitude. I’m a mature-age first year student, but my results so far have all been 80-95% and I am genuinely enjoying my subjects, and have an optimistic view of the future for the first time since I was 16.

[@linzerj9904]

Currently raising turkeys, and they're such funny, stupid little guys... learning about their whole family tree was a great treat!!

[@jtjames79]

Turkeys give the best bird hugs. 🤗

[@calebrey]

You’ll love them! Turkeys are the best

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@calebrey Their faces look like cute wrinkly little ballsacks lol.

[@ChickenScratch-Feathers]

Yes so true! I raise turkeys too, and they are just about the derpiest, goofiest, dumbest, and most awkard birds ever. They never fail to make me laugh 😂 they definitely are my favorite poultry to keep next to guineas and peacocks.

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@ChickenScratch-Feathers It’s wild to think about just how ancient of a bird they are despite their awkward derpiness.

[@madmanarrivednow]

Wrote it once, write it again: the fact that anseliformes coexisted with the dinosaurs just explains why geese and ducks are so aggressive. And especially towards mammals. Mammals stole their eggs... possibly. For lack of better word, the ancestral memory of scaring away stuff that is bigger than them doesn't disappear that easily.

[@Rumda.]

Why the past tense? We are still stealing them now.

[@dahlgalai]

now i imagine pathetic duck chase away large theropod away from their nest

[@madmanarrivednow]

@@Rumda. I stand corrected 😁

[@KerriGilpin]

Swans are bigger jerks than any of them, I’ve been attacked 3 different times by 3 different swans in 3 different locations. They live in my town, they are the town mascot 🤦🏼‍♀️ and I’ve heard others in the area hate the ones they’ve encountered. Swans should be on menus.

[@chickensalad3535]

​@@KerriGilpinYou think that swans should be killed for being annoying?

[@tarab4617]

As soon as the screamer pic popped up, I thought it looked like a secretary bird and started googling which family they belong to but obviously should have waited 45 seconds more when Clint explained it himself 😂

[@ClintsReptiles]

I expected a lot of complaints about this video, but I didn't think that THIS would be the complaint! 😅 SO MANY PEOPLE have jumped on to correct my translation of the Spanish "pavo real" to "real turkey". They say that "pavo real" means "royal turkey". Given that "real" in Spanish means both "real" and "royal", that could be true, so what's the correct translation? Peacocks are called "pavo real" because peacocks were "pavo" long before any Spanish speaking person ever saw a turkey. "Pavo" is, in fact, Latin for peacock. When turkeys were first encountered by Spanish speaking people, they called it, essentially, a peacock (because that was the most similar animal that they knew). Today both are "pavo". To denote the difference they are essentially called the "peacock", and the "real peacock". Because "real peacocks" are so extravagant, and because most people don't know this history, they assume that the "real" in this context means royal, but that is incorrect. Now can we talk about the correct pronunciation of the word Argentine?

[@lucalopez9604]

you telling me I (spanish speaker) have lived a lie my whole life?!

[@fabianhm77]

I remain unconvinced about this, here in Yucatan Mexico, there are stories about the peacok being the king of birds an so, but given the fact that other stories shows peacocks as thiefs and for that were punished with no singing whatsoever... im no telling you are incorrect just that im unconvinced hahaha. Your channel is the best, best regards clint, i hope you fight AI Clint and stay with us for a long time.

[@fnamelname9077]

I know this because one of the little stories from my high-school Latin class was something like "Pavo et Canem". A story in which some Romans encounter a dog and later feast on a peacock. IIRC

[@springlamb7743]

"Cloacal kiss" is the major take away from this video

[@darcieclements4880]

I absolutely adore Clint's facial expression when he talks about dinosaur December because that is how I feel on the inside about the opportunity to talk about and look at dinosaurs. One of these days I need to go out and meet him in person because yeah we're almost the same person, lol.

[@ollie_acorn]

This is perhaps the silliest Clint we have ever gotten, and I'm HERE for it.

[@neilchace1858]

Now I want to know what the scariest part of being a safari driver is!

[@karlihannah1330]

Same!

[@T3rsky]

I'm going to guess it's the passengers.

[@CainXVII]

Hippos....

[@dion8895]

It's rich tourists who keep telling them to take them closer.

[@mariasabstractart9203]

I LOVE dinosaurs. So I'm totally looking forward to Dinosaur December.

[@AndrewDavis-sj6mb]

Dino December eh who knew

[@samrizzardi2213]

Hey Clint, ever thought about doing a video on foxes, with an emphasis on explaining how gray foxes and South American foxes aren't actually foxes at all?

[@ClintsReptiles]

That sounds like a great idea!

[@sarahbeaulieu999]

I would watch that. I love foxes they are really cool critters, they really are animals that I could almost believe were 1/2 canine and 1/2 feline despite not really being either (I know they are part of the canidae family but being vulpine are still very different from other canines)

[@nonny9350]

​@@ClintsReptiles id love that! foxes are my favorite animal!!

[@Rumda.]

​@@sarahbeaulieu999cat software running on canid hardware

[@indyreno2933]

Foxes are not a natural group, they are actually a paraphyletic group, which is why there are many dog species called foxes, only ten out of twenty extant genera of dogs have species known as foxes being Urocyon (includes 2 species: Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Grey Fox) and Urocyon littoralis (Channel Island Fox)), Bassarilupus (includes 2 species: Bassarilupus gymnocercus (Pampas Fox) and Bassarilupus sechurae (Sechuran Fox)), Pseudalopex (includes 2 species: Pseudalopex culpaeus (Culpeo) and Pseudalopex vetulus (Hoary Fox)), Lycalopex (includes 2 species: Lycalopex griseus (Chilla) and Lycalopex fulvipes (Darwin's Fox)), Cerdocyon (includes 1 species: Cerdocyon thous (Crab-Eating Fox)), Vulpes (includes 3 species: Vulpes vulpes (Eurasian Red Fox), Vulpes fulva (American Red Fox), and Vulpes barbara (African Red Fox)), Neocyon (includes 1 species: Neocyon ferrilatus (Tibetan Fox)), Alopex (includes 4 species: Alopex corsac (Corsac Fox), Alopex lagopus (Arctic Fox), Alopex velox (Swift Fox), and Alopex macrotis (Kit Fox)), Fennecus (includes 6 species: Fennecus bengalensis (Bengal Fox), Fennecus canus (Blanford's Fox), Fennecus rueppellii (Ruppell's Fox), Fennecus zerda (Fennec Fox), Fennecus pallidus (Pale Fox), and Fennecus chama (Cape Fox)), and Otocyon (includes 1 species: Otocyon megalotis (Bat-Eared Fox)), the other ten extant dog genera are not foxes.

[@penguin52692]

I think this is the first time I’ve ever heard Clint say he doesn’t like a specific animal (Guinea fowl)

[@alicecain4851]

But he had a valid reason.

[@darcieclements4880]

I knew about oscillated turkeys, but the only pictures I had from about 20 years ago consisted of black and white, poorly printed drawing and poorly printed super tiny long distance photo. I'm going to go check out the internet and see all the new pretty pictures that must exist! Absolutely loved this episode everything about it!

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

Isn't it "ocellated"?

[@Kokonuz_]

You should get chinese button quail for the room, they are tiny, cute and lay eggs small enough for young egg eating snakes

[@wilderulz]

Button quail are so freaking cute!!

[@indyreno2933]

They're actually called asiatic chungchis as they are not true quails, the word "buttonquail" officially refers to the family Turnicidae.

[@catpoke9557]

​@@indyreno2933that's cool

[@widowpeak6142]

I wonder how chickens would look like if we had domesticated a different species of junglefowl, instead of Gallus gallus.

[@Firestar-TV]

I wonder how many Crest Colors there would be if it would've been the Green Junglefowl

[@ba_charles]

you'll find a lot of goofy looking chicken breeds if you start getting into them

[@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434]

@@Firestar-TV of course plenty. Blue, purple, anything other than red and black. Well green junglefowl actually can be bred with common domestic chicken that descend from red junglefowl. Their descendant are called bekisar and often used as shows chicken in its native region, East Java

[@Firestar-TV]

@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 Seen them online once. They are amazing

[@wildflower1397]

I just realized that I think of chickens as "farm" animals, even though I know they are jungle fowl. They are so domesticated and altered from their jungle cousins, that it dosen't feel like they were ever wild anything. Thanks for the reminder!

[@mariahsart]

I was crying of laughter from the perfect explanation of the duck's reproductive systems.

[@eriathdien]

"Cloacal Kisser" is a phrase I didn't need to know

[@AlmightyThagomizer]

I love how diverse these birds are, there’s enough there that you could probably make a phylogeny video about Phasianidae alone! And another for Anatidae! You didn’t even get the chance to talk about the flightless club-winged steamer ducks, or the stinky fully aquatic musk duck! It was fun learning about Hamilton and his diminutive American woodcock, one of my favorite Scolopacids. At least I think it was mentioned in this video 🤔

[@jaschabull2365]

Yeah, there are plenty of other galloanseriformes to go over, I'd love more on the merganser, as well as the ruddy duck.

[@PaleoAnalysis]

20 days until Dinosaur December... I'll just be sitting here waiting by the phone Clint... ☎️👀

[@roseyuen6916]

Wow! PaleoAnalysis in the wild! Love your videos

[@TheJLAMAR23]

All the stabs at Hamilton, especially the snood, had me rolling 🤣

[@peterroberts4415]

This video was brought to you by Aaron Burr

[@vulturesalesman]

Hey Clint! I love these phylogeny videos and was wondering if you ever considered doing an order of fish for one of these? If so, I think you'd get a real kick out of covering the Tetraodontiformes, seeing as they have a whole lot of weird members with some weird uses over history. I hope you keep making more of these types of vids for the foreseeable future, they're great!

[@ClintsReptiles]

That's one of my favorite groups of non-tetrapod bony fishes!!!

[@lisaroper421]

@@ClintsReptiles somehow that response is so Zoologist! 😂

[@Theravingranter]

I like to always tell people that the traditionally ugly birds are actually some of the sweetest and the traditionally beautiful birds are A-holes. Ducks, swans, peacocks, all of them are beautiful but not nice. Turkeys, pheasants, kiwi and the always belittled vulture are actually quite nice. There’s a bird around the lakes that I cannot identify but it has a crane like figure, white body, but it’s head is devoid of feathers it almost looks skeletal. Creepy but a very sweet natured animal, patiently waits for snacks while the ducks rush and attack me.

[@shattermelon496]

Sounds like a stork.

[@suchomimustenerensis5302]

The bird you describe sounds kind of like an American wood stork or possibly some kind of ibis.

[@Theravingranter]

@@suchomimustenerensis5302 Looked it up last night. Correct! You guys are amazing at bird identifying!

[@ZeroX7649]

There's a crane at a park I fish at that will pose for photos every now and again. I feel like training it.

[@thealrightygina5725]

I have pilgrim geese that politely wait for me to hand them treats. The most they'll do is nibble so gently on my pants that I don't realize they're trying to get my attention half the time. The ducks are very much snatch and run, while climbing all over my feet lol.

[@jacobheusser6233]

Love it when Clint lights up in his videos, either because he is passionate or because he can't help laughing!

[@tscream80]

Clint had way too much fun with this one.

[@mariahsart]

One of my favorite episodes seeing Clint in such joy hahaha

[@gamer708886]

I am henceforth calling swans, long neck ducks. XD

[@PropagandasaurusRex]

"Snood" it possibly derived from (or has some relation with) the Dutch word "Snuit", which means the defining expression of the face without naming the actual part. Like "Face", but a more specific area of the face, the combination of nose and mouth.

[@furrowingowl5906]

The term is also used to describe a type of knitted hair bags (for lack of a better term) that women wore in the Middle Ages.

[@ElizabethJones-pv3sj]

@@furrowingowl5906 As far as I can tell from looking into 16th century records snood was not the term used (at least in English I haven't got the language skills to check other languages) in that period. Caul or coif may have been used for women's head coverings. I looked it up and according to online etymology dictionary snood meant hair ribbon in the Medieval period and wasn't applied to hair nets until the 1930s.

[@Megad00mer]

Another fantastic video. Id love to see a video about the Hoatzin (the babies have claws on their wings!) and their relationship to other birds.

[@Bigggiudo]

"WE'LL DO IT LIVE!" My favorite channel at the moment

[@fmac6441]

13:11, Turkey in Portuguese(Brazilian at least) is called "peru" which is also a colloquial way of calling the penis. So the discussion was quite appropriate LOL

[@elizabethgundrum2619]

Oscillated turkeys are beautiful. I saw some in Guatemala several years ago. Once upon a time, I had a copy of the photo my classmate took that we jokingly titled 'What really happened to the Maya'. Tikal has a scale model of the site in the visitor center (which is an open-air pavilion) and 'Birdzilla' the oscillated turkey was hunting for insects in the doorways, so it looked like it was trying to eat the residents.

[@ratchelmurphy3548]

There are wild turkeys all over where I am now. I love to watch them. They had chicks earlier this year and man were they adorable. I'll cluck at them and they'll look up at me. It's cute. Thanks Clint for the video.

[@rat_dragon]

"Promiscuous goose, wherever you are, I'm all alone and it's you that I want."

[@anastrixnoodles]

I loved every bit of this video. I want more bird videos in this channel

[@jmangan17]

Wow, Clint was worked up today. either these are some of his favorite animals ever, or he tripled his coffee intake. regardless, it made for a super fun video!

[@alicecain4851]

He's Mormon, so he doesn't drink coffee.

[@AreolaGrande94]

Clint's knowledge of taxonomy is astonishing to me. I tend to have a decent memory when it comes to academic things, but I couldn't imagine retaining all of the obscure names with their endless branching. Also, side note: the more and more I learn about Alexander Hamilton, the more he seems like just a bad guy.

[@napoleonfeanor]

Hamilton was a bad dude

[@justinwatson1510]

All of America's fouding fathers were monsters. They were essentially the Jeff Bezos / Elon Musk of their time, but with slaves so they were even worse.

[@silviu-georgepantelimon1423]

BEST... VIDEO... EVER!!! I love Clint's enthusiasm, have to admire his dedication to biology and the humor is outstanding.

[@ravenwolf7128]

Blue Snood! Love it! Do an entire Clint's album of cover songs slightly altered to fit crazy facts about various species. I want that for Dino December Christmas.🦃🦖🎄

[@ravenwolf7128]

PS--you've got a nice singing voice--unexpectedly so--singing science geek stuff is just delightful.

[@TheRockInnRobin]

There are a ton of unsolicited duck pics in this video Clint. You truly are my kind of people.

[@porakiyadraekojin3390]

Clint nerding out on Snoods had me uncontrollably laughing😂

[@caprinespectre]

"kind of makes you wonder if Hamilton had a tiny little snood" LMAO

[@ivanruiz2218]

There are families of turkeys in my neighborhood. I was walking my dog once, when i hear this interesting little cry, and i turn around and it 's a small young little turkey running towards us, but up ahead of us was as group of turkeys, one of which hearing the cry turned around and started running towards the little one while making her own call. It was so cute. Scary for the little one who got separated from his mom, but the motherly care was just so beautiful.

[@GaryDunion]

Do we have much of a fossil record of the birds that predated the end-Cretaceous* extinction? And if so do we have enough of a record before and after to identify any of the bird lineages that _didn't_ make it? * I automatically typed "K-T extinction" first because I went to university in the 90s, god I'm old.

[@root_test9493]

I've been breeding turkeys most of my life. They are so much fun. If you treat them well they are so affectionate and sweet

[@WebWingRecords]

I always love when Clint sneaks a phylogeny video by us but I really wish he would label the phylogeny series better. I'm always afraid I'm gonna miss one. XD

[@ClintsReptiles]

I wish I had a better way to indicate that. I can say, if one of our videos has an irregular title, it's probably a phylogeny.

[@WebWingRecords]

@@ClintsReptiles I've been studying the ways of KZbin for a long time and there is a way. Since it is clearly a series the way most KZbinrs designate their regular series videos from one offs is some kind of hyphen, bracket, or parenthetical punctuation followed by the name of the series at the end (name it as you wish but as simple as "phylogeny video" would suffice). That also has the added bonus of bringing the videos up when someone searches for them or for anything related to phylogenies.

[@WebWingRecords]

You don't necessarily need to change the already published videos but it would help the algorithm recommend them. I also highly recommend organizing all the phylogeny videos into a playlist, especially if you don't want to update dozens of video titles

[@ClintsReptiles]

Great suggestion. I plan to adopt this! I do have a playlist!

[@ClintsReptiles]

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[@auroraasleep]

I really loathe guinea fowl for similar reasons as you do. Those birds will NOT stay out of the road! Their favorite hobby is kissing car tires. They are the same color as the road too. A person can /try/ not to hit them, but somehow their little bird brains are determined to cross the rainbow bridge with the help of the Michelin Man. Also, I hate the sounds they make. Turkeys are awesome. Now I want Mexican turkeys. I told another mom in one of my chicken groups that she can assure her son that roosters don't have that body part, but ducks sure do and it's a corkscrew shape, and that he should share that fact during show-n-tell because his 1st grade class will love him, and so will his teacher, though they'll have to wait to get to the teacher's lounge to laugh about it.

[@ClintsReptiles]

This is one of the best comments ever!

[@penandinkgal3396]

Clint is why I get up early on Saturdays. Please make a video on honey bees 🐝 🍯.

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

One of my favorite episodes ever! I love all of the dinosaurs in this video and the comedy is over the top hilarious 🤣 ❤

[@sonoransaguaro3786]

🌵I just found your channel on a TikTok type platform. As an 82 yr old lifelong student, I gotta say... you are an AWESOME instructor!!! I do so enjoy your style of presentation! The first episode was about turkeys. Absolutely hilarious!! What a thoroughly enjoyable way to learn!! ANYTHING!! I'm subscribed!! ❤❤️❤️👍

[@chrislangstaff]

It gives me so much joy to watch eps like this when Clint is feeling himself 🙂 SNOODS

[@ressljs]

I can't help but think when Clint goes to the zoo, there's all sorts of unnecessary drama.

[@deed5811]

Maybe unnecessary, but high education and entertainment value

[@musicobsessive123]

i relate to a guinea fowl so hard ngl. small a lil stupid n i just wanna cozy up under things

[@Im_that_archeops]

Same

[@zero.the.prototype]

There are so few opportunities to use our free time to grow, learn, and relax at the same time. Your work enables so many people to do exactly that! Such a lovely video today, so I just have to take a moment to show my immense appreciation for you and your team's energy and dedication. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

[@Teefs]

Clint, you should get a flock of guinea fowl and learn to love their stupid antics (they can't get you fired now!) 😂I absolutely LOVE my flock of guineas - best parts: they keep my farm free of ticks and other pests, and they provide hours of entertainment daily (even if that means I'm often herding them away from the roadway). On the topic of corkscrew penises... We also raise pigs. I'm sure you know what boars have...a corkscrew penis! 🤭 Granted, their corkscrew is nowhere near as impressive as the ones mentioned/show in your video. Maybe throw in a pig video around Christmas to honor all the Christmas hams...and you'll be able to talk about corkscrew penises two months in a row! 😂 Love the channel!

[@JustinQuilling]

I was a farmhand in Montana in the 90s on a ranch that had guinea fowl. One interesting thing was that they would sometimes find rattlesnakes and form a circle around them and make a lot of noise. Unfortunately, after a few years they were all eventually killed by raccoons.

[@fnamelname9077]

​@@JustinQuilling When I was a kid, my family raised chickens, ducks, and turkeys. We got a lot of eggs and we ate one chicken. Everything else was sadly assassinated (probably by coyote).

[@jaschabull2365]

Who else was today years old when they learned Daffy and Porky had matching privates? By the sound of it, even if Porky's might not be as long as Daffy's, the effects of his may last longer ;D

[@colinhames7377]

LOVE THIS, you should do an animal holiday themed phylogeny episode for each major holiday, im thinking reindeer for Christmas, bunnies for Easter, bats for Halloween (Ik you’ve already done bats before just saying lol)

[@whombatwhacker9922]

Seeing Clint so happy eating cereal sealed the deal. I ordered the variety pack with the code. I want to experience a mouth circus🤙

[@LitmusPapyrus]

Somehow the Blue Moon parody was the absolute best part of this banger of a vid. Thank you, Clint!

[@9usuck0]

Turkeys come into town every turkey season. Smart little guys always hangout in the "no hunting" zones like they own the place. Sometimes slowing traffic.

[@darcieclements4880]

Hey Clint, just a little fun fact here even though galiformes don't have penises in the same way that some of the waterfowl do, there are ones that have what I like to call nubbins. They're very small penises and some of them range from just a little speck to up to about a centimeter long. It's unclear what the purpose is, and individuals within a single species (such as chickens) can vary wildly on how large it is, but they are not completely absent of their members which probably shows that ancestrally there was some variation as well with some lineages dropping it completely and others taking it to extremes.

[@ClintsReptiles]

Very cool!

[@dranorter]

I don't think it implies much about the ancestral condition. Reproductive organ differences are a common sort of variation / speciation.

[@mrwisher1250]

currently writing an essay on false history and Thanksgiving is one of my prime examples. By all accounts the first "thanksgiving" was held in Florida, by Spaniards, potentially as far back as ~1550. Moderns thanksgiving became a thing because in the mid 1700s, the descendants of pilgrims were losing political and cultural influences. To try and regain their influence, they launched a propaganda campaign, and the (totally made up lol) story of thanksgiving was at the center of it. Fast forward to the mid 1800s, and a woman by the name of Sarah Joseph Hale (author of Mary had a little lamb) discovered the story, and was so taken by the story she went on to propose it be made into a national holiday to 5 sitting presidents before Abraham Lincoln finally did.

[@Badficwriter]

It always amazes me that people seem to think people living in the Americas didn't have autumnal harvest feasts until Europeans showed up. I

[@jessereichbach588]

What really defines this clade is that they are all, to my knowledge, rather delicious. Especially quail, and Pheasant and family, and ducks, and geese, and I just assume all.

[@___i3ambi126]

You say they're too cute to eat like my first instinct when seeing too much cuteness isn't to put my mouth around it.

[@amselstrae3232]

Considering what happened in the bloodworm video an this one has a viewer discretion ill not eat my breakfast during this

[@doriphor]

Just watched your rats video after this one and... I think rats could use some competition: gerbils. They're like small rats with a no pee no poop policy and they're pretty good at following it too 😊

[@Quetzaluki]

I loved your section about the megapodes! I actually did a small presentation for my previous employer where I explained some of the things about them like you did - altricial vs precocial and the fact that they build a mound instead of hanging around and incubating like other birds. The idea was to show an example of animals using unconventional means to save time/effort. I also did a presentation on vultures and how they may seem creepy and associated with dead things but they're actually keeping the environment clean and safe. Doing what they do best is going out of their way to make things better for others. It's fun how you can relate so many things to the way companies should function. Plus I was able to educate a lot about people about my favorite things... birds! (I was the crazy bird person in the office. Everyone knew it. But thankfully people really enjoyed these presentations!)

[@terrypitt-brooke8367]

When you regain your composure, I have suggestion: talk about disruptive coloration--falcons have trouble hunting white-rumped pigeons, and similar coloration in Magpies, other corvids, and the Magpie goose!

[@ZennExile]

I mean, if a pet dinosaur is the goal, a chicken embro can be modified quite easily using modern editing techniques into a little Jurassic Park style abomination that, statistically speaking, shouldn't suffer from some form of gigantism cancer that transforms them into a kaiju.

[@robertbailey4454]

I watched this at work. In retrospect, headphones would have been a good idea.

[@ClintsReptiles]

You live and you learn.

[@robertbailey4454]

@@ClintsReptiles By the time I convinced my co-workers they did NOT in fact hear "corkscrew penises", I had to run interference over snowcocks. They are all now more than a little curious as to what my browser history looks like. I belted out my own rendition of Blue Snewd too. lol great video, Clint.

[@samarnadra]

​@@robertbailey4454At that point you explain this is a biology video about birds and you didn't expect them to be this _weird_ and say the videos are usually family-friendly and SFW and you didn't expect turkeys and their cousins to change that this much. And then introduce them to the channel and get them hooked.

[@kimpanther5110]

I was so excited to learn the Occelated Turkey is, in fact, a turkey! We have them at the zoo I work at and the male liked to judge me when I used to make food deliveries 😂

[@billysmith5409]

This is my favorite educational channel on KZbin! Clint is just the best!

[@patax144]

great vid, just a little correction on the name of peafowls in spanish, it is "pavo real" but it would translate more to royal turkey than real turkey, yes the word "real" can be translated into english as either real or royal depending on the context, in the case of the birds it is definitely royal, as the colors and the feathers on their heads resemble a crown.

[@ClintsReptiles]

That's actually a common misconception.

[@ClintsReptiles]

Here is a great explanation if you read Spanish: blog.lengua-e.com/2017/por-que-el-pavo-real-se-llama-pavo-real/

[@isimiel3405]

the title had my curiosity and now you have my turktention

[@PianomanKY]

I want to see a "Cassowary, is it the best pet dinosaur for you?"

[@GERdeathstar]

"Mitochondria, the POWERHOUSE of the cell." Thank you for that throwback to school, Clint

[@Mockingbird_Taloa]

You mentioned some of the birds that get termed 'quail' are actually in the pheasant clade--in my people's language (Chahta annompa), the word we use for guineafowl is the same word for quail (kofi)--so there are birds called 'quail' in the guinea clade as well! One might think that guinea would be considered just another type of chicken since they're about the same size and were also introduced by Eruopeans around the same time (btw, the word for 'chicken' is "anaknak"--an onomatopoeia). Or, since guineas kinda look like turkeys*, the native word for turkey (fvkit, pronounced 'fahk-iht.' Seriously.) could reasonably be expected to apply to guinea. Instead, they were considered most similar to quail because guineas move (individually and as a herd) like quail do. Guinea eggs are also quite small--not much larger than a large quail egg. *I grew up around farm animals. Never would have considered a guinea to look all that much like a turkey, plus it's less than half the size. My town had a pet guinea for a while, and travelers would invariably ask us: "is that turkey is someone's pet?" or "that turkey looks dangerous, is it SAFE???" or "can the turkey come inside? It looks cold/hot/wet." The first time someone asked me about the "turkey," I had no clue what they were on about & my first thought was "oh great, the guinea has a friend now" before I looked out to see the guinea staring at its reflection in a door across the street. That Bird was perfectly harmless unless you were an outdoor table (guinea poop a LOT), a window screen (they think their reflection is another guinea and will peck at it rather aggressively), or a banana nut muffin. Silly thing loved to watch traffic--from the middle of the road. Managed to go a long time without any injury (That Bird, as it was called, would stand on the yellow line in the dead center of the road, perfectly safe from being hit)--until someone hit it on purpose and broke it's leg. The bird recovered, but it was let out a few days before it was fully healed up and didn't make it 24 hours before some idiot's loose dog carried it off.

[@TiggerIsMyCat]

That is actually kind of what happened. Turkeys came to Europe via Arabian traders, who were getting the birds from the Portuguese, who would then trade the turkeys they got from the Portuguese alongside the guinea fowl that they got themselves from Africa. This multiple step process and the similarity of the birds is why people were confused, and turkeys, from the Americas, are named after the country of Turkey, and Guinea Fowl, from Africa, are named after the South American country of Guyana.

[@dasduke8858]

You are honestly the most amazing and informative channel I've ever found. Thank you so much for everything you do.

[@lucasphilipevasconcelosgom902]

Pheasants!!! My favorite group of reptiles and animals overall!!! They really are! Kept them as pets since my childhood and I'll never stop this craziness!

[@Lord_RFAS]

Never thought ducks would make me feel insecure about my ... self. 🤣

[@samanthaj6614]

I would love more bird videos!☺️ You’re so well informed on them and you’re very passionate! Great content

[@niveketihw1897]

RE: 11:00 Between 10 and 20 years ago there was a nearby pond / park (Bear Creek Park in Keller, TX) that had, at the time, a fairly large population of different ducks and geese. Probably 3 main varieties of what I would call "ducks" and 2 varieties of what I would call "geese." I would say somewhere around 150 to 200 semi-permanent residents. Anyway, on one late summer evening in probably 2006, when the park was mostly deserted as far as people but absolutely thronged with ducks and geese, we... saw it. We witnessed a "forceful copulation." It was crazy. The other ducks formed a circle around the two and there was much commotion from them all. It didn't last long. We didn't have anything capable of video or even pics with us at the time (and I'm not sure we'd like to relive it anyway). Oddly enough that park is almost deserted now. You'll see an odd egret and crow but no Anatidae members any more. Not sure why. My other story is about wild turkeys. At my office, which is a large 3,000 person campus located in a somewhat rural enclave, we have quite a bit of wildlife. But for a couple of weeks maybe ten years ago we had a gang of three wild turkeys, who congregated around the front entrance and made aggressive movements toward random employees coming or going. Security would shoo them away but they would soon come back again. My thought was this a safety risk not because they would necessarily peck or claw somebody but because they might threaten to do and cause an older person to trip and fall on the somewhat uneven cobblestones or steps. Eventually they weren't there any longer...

[@BriJBo]

Ocellated turkeys are literally my favorite species of bird to look at and have been for 3 years after I discovered them and drew them for my parasitology class (I had to show the life cycle of some parasite in the body of a bird). They're like peacocks but better!

[@RedhairedBallerina]

I'm absolutely LIVING for all the Hamilton references 😂😍

[@turingtestflunker]

I love the phylogeny videos.

[@usonumabeach300]

Love the phylogeny videos! How about one covering the raptors and/or ravens?

[@TheYear-dm9op]

I didn' expect an explanation on the difference between fast and slow twitch muscle fibers. But it's very much appreciated. I was always wondering about this and noone did elaborate why the ones are strong but also go flat very fast and the others are weaker but can go for a long time.

[@jadedjaws4952]

CLINT. You're too pure for this world. I put this video off while I was fighting the seasonal blues, but your blue snoods song chased it away. I hope you had a holiday season as amazing as you are. 💙

[@pythonkeeper148]

🎉⚠️QUAIL VIDEO INCOMING⚠️🎉 BUTTON/KING quail are essentially the hamsters of birds, or of dinosaurs you should say. I would say that when it comes to birds, parrots get too much attention. You can get and hatch quail eggs right out of the mail - not a lot of pets you can do that with

[@alexanderno1093]

pleaseee do parrot's phylogenetic tree! (guest star Cheyenne from Snake Discovery?)

[@jessewoellhof6843]

I love how Clint yells "EXPLODE INTO THE AIR"

[@tipping_scales]

Had this playing in the car with the windows down as I pulled into Lowes right at "enormous, prehensile, corkscrew...."😂😂 I frantically turned the volume down but it was too late😅

[@CELERITAS-BONITAS]

I've been considering Pet Quail for my egg eater snake! Please do a best pet video for them ❤

[@benjaminwalters2188]

I think Benjamin Franklin was just upset about the whole bald thing that's why he wanted the turkey instead of the American bald eagle Attention people this is a joke I heard on PBS kids years ago

[@mattx449]

Is it a joke because turkeys are actually bald and eagles are just pretending? 😂

[@donnacook9065]

I know you're probably always hearing this, but your energy is infectious and I love it! Keep up the good work. Your videos are so educational - great de-rez watching after a stressful work day!