WE ALMOST HAD MAMMOTHS!?!?!? (╯°□°)╯

[@overlycautiousstrategist3647]

I want a mammoth now

[@sarahc882]

@@overlycautiousstrategist3647 if not friend then why extinct

[@hankschannel]

I have amazing news: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/complexly-and-creative-beasts-studios/prehistoric-elephants

[@Symphing12]

​@@sarahc882 It's the eternal Nerdfighter wish for puppy-sized elephants, except we want the big ones now.

[@nigor42]

puppy-sized mammoth?

[@converseroo101]

A biotech company was planning to bring them back in a few years

[@onytay75]

Elephant musth? The tesla guy?

[@hankschannel]

Oh wow...

[@amasterofone]

Thank you for this

[@cosmickiwi686]

HAH

[@CodedLockFilms]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@aebisdecunter]

*The Tuskla

[@jenrivera5893]

The older female elephants guarding the younger females from the aggressive males is something that I’m so glad I now know.

[@anyascelticcreations]

If only they guarded young rhinos too.

[@korganrocks3995]

@@anyascelticcreations I once saw a video of a male elephant in musth bowling over a rhino that was in his way, and I'm gonna choose to believe that's the kind of thing you're referring to...

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@korganrocks3995 aaahhh, no. It was something else.

[@Katiebartl]

Women gotta stick together. I've done this in a club too.

[@basilgray5640]

Human women do this too

[@suezeus]

Classic Hank Green video as it took only 55 seconds to mention animal sex

[@m1n3craftPCtut0r1al]

Barely 40 seconds really

[@Cuz.im.batman]

And I'm still upset it took that long

[@amosbackstrom5366]

Those are rookie numbers, he fell off

[@Skip6235]

Getting back to the old-school roots

[@janmelantu7490]

🎶 We’re just people who love Mammoths…who love Mammoths 🎶

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

6:25 ah yes, the third gender: Damaged

[@daanwilmer]

I feel like I can relate

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

Represent!

[@beaub152]

Real

[@JaydragonM]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MidnightAssass1n]

I feel like every Enby I’ve ever spoken to would approve

[@bob-gabbitas]

Next time I go to the club, I'm peeing on my leg.

[@hankschannel]

Look, it happens!

[@tag180rotax]

Happened to Drake

[@hazmatt8349]

That's my signature dance move. Success rates may vary.

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

Honestly.... we're animals.... Would it be weirder if it actually helped? Or if it didn't? Lol (I'm talking non visible, not enough volume to be directly whiffed. Maybe some pheromone stuff still going on in the more primitive areas of our brain?)

[@RaVen99991]

​@goosenotmaverick1156 we don't make those pheromones human dont really make that much/ any pheromones

[@Parasfarmer]

As someone in the field whose done a decent amount of work on mammoths I always forget that it's not common knowledge just how closely they are related to elephants. Mammoths are *within* the clade that includes all extant elephants. Last I checked, mammoths and Asian elephants are more closely related to eachother than either is to the African Elephant. If they were alive today, perhaps we'd think if them as 'just that third kind of elephant', although I think they would still be striking and unique. But it shouldn't shock us when they are very similiar to the elephants we know and love. Very good video!

[@P4Stalot]

This is craaazzzyyyu

[@aoibhinquinn7310]

Fuzzy elephant!

[@genericname8727]

They’d be the highland cows of elephants. This makes sense to me

[@choddle8427]

Honestly, they look so much like elephants that I already just think of them as a different kind of elephant. Like, we have he small Asian elephant, the large African elephant, and the huge, fuzzy, extinct elephant

[@seigeengine]

Yeah, so here's the thing. The people you're talking about don't know what a clade is.

[@angryface01]

I wonder about Hank’s algorithm. ONCE I had to order cadaver bags to teach end-of-life care to nursing students. Suddenly I was getting adverts for bail bondsmen!!! I can only imagine Hank’s algorithm sitting in a corner, having an existential crisis…!

[@IrinaGreenman]

One of my graduate professors is a classical historian who, during his dissertation process, wound up getting visits from DHS and the FBI, because of the search terms that came up researching things about the death of Alexander the Great. I wonder where they draw the line between "probably just a grad student" and "well this is concerning."

[@rosaliac.386]

​@@IrinaGreenman but also KZbinr or author is on that list of "maybe?? 🤔”

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

I try to turn off all personalized ads that I can, and it helps limit how wild my stuff gets, but I get weird ads anyway, so I try not to wonder what it would be like if I didnt... 😂

[@mariannetfinches]

I've recently had adverts in German & Japanese. Neither of which I speak. I told my wife & she said "You did it. You've won the algorithm"

[@BlackOpMercyGaming]

No no, Hank’s algorithm had *LONG AGO* … well, let’s just say, ordered its own cadaver bag…. It also bought a single 12ga shell…. Or maybe an emp device…

[@coviox]

I really love these "let's learn with hank" videos.

[@JFGraham26]

Yeah same I could watch hundreds of these rabbit hole Hank videos

[@kolt9051]

Same and once I saw the advert I was like oooh yeah he admits that's why he made the video. Except I don't care at all Ive already LOL'd 4 times halfway through. Fun stuff to brighten my morning

[@elkwolf2888]

Learn Chaotically with HanK

[@Erratic_Pulse_0758]

So I can google "worm sex", "elephant sex", and "mammoth sex", but when I google "human sex" we have a problem? Smh my head

[@yeahaddigirl]

Don't worry, I'm sure project 2025 will put an end to all of that stuff 😂

[@cuckoobrain7999]

@@yeahaddigirl I know what project 2025 is but I don't understand what you mean

[@crow-jane]

@@cuckoobrain7999Oh. Yeah. One thing on the wishlist is a total corn ban, which would theoretically entail gov’t takeover of the internet and a political review of all newly published material.

[@cuckoobrain7999]

@@crow-jane Thanks, yeah I knew that I was more confused by the phrasing I guess

[@RealBradMiller]

​@@cuckoobrain7999Lol, I know. It sounds like they are excited about it.

[@CodedLockFilms]

Hank’s FBI agent never has a boring day…

[@verdatum]

Hank is the reason why the concept of "whitelisting" exists.

[@charmainenordtvedt4354]

Hank has a solid crew of FBI agents, trying to keep up with him is a 5 person job

[@OrigamiMarie]

​@@verdatumyeah Hank is just in the "weird but harmless" category.

[@vurrunna]

What's wild about that joke is that in this case, there's a very real probability that Hank might actually have an FBI agent monitoring him. John got visited by a spy, after all, so it isn't too far fetched that the government might actually be keeping tabs on the Green brothers. Which means some agent is having to trawl through an endless sea of animals getting freaky.

[@afinoxi]

His googling history must be diabolical

[@agentm83]

Google: Yeahhhh...we're uhhh....gonna have to flag this guy's IP address...!

[@BirchyBirch3208]

Honestly tho

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

Honestly he's gotta be on at least a couple "lists" 😂

[@RaVen99991]

Why there is nothing wrong about it you must just be a Lil f*cking kid to think that

[@ChadWork]

Bluds bouta get banned from google

[@eviive8496]

I'm so happy that you found the rabbit hole of elephants vs cancer. For many years, the elephants at the zoo in SLC UT were participating in studies to help cure childhood leukemia!!!

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

So cool!

[@Emily-tv1iz]

My brain fully read that acronym as SLUT 😂 But hats off to those beeg bois helping out the kids

[@amycox5733]

I read SLC UT as SLUT and was very confused

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

Setting aside the cool thing here, I misread that abbreviation you used and I'm pretty sure you know what I saw.

[@aazhie]

​@@Blasted2Oblivion xD HoNrEy mammoths in YOUR area lol

[@EloiseL]

The contrast between this video and John's latest vlogbrothers video next to each other in my subscription feed made me audibly laugh, deep philosophy vs mammoth sex 😂 sums up their interests and internet personalities perfectly

[@Seven-Seas-of-Baba-O-Riley]

I clicked on this thinking "Oh, he's gonna talk about how some mammoths lived at the same time as the pyramids, I'd like to see how he'd tell that story!" Should've known I'd be tricked into hearing about elephant sex.

[@jennifersaar1611]

First worm sex and now mammoths. Is this a new thing, Hank? 'Grinding With Green: Animal Edition'?

[@langly27]

Giraffes

[@josi_k.]

I'm here for it!

[@hjonkhjonksillygoose]

He's been doing this forever 😅

[@shpup]

@@langly27 Hes not new to this he's true to this

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

​@@langly27I never knew how much I needed to know how giraffes do it until exactly right now 😂

[@jrpstonecarver]

The mental whiplash from watching Crash Course Religions #2 followed by this is hard to describe.

[@LDSG_A_Team]

0:25 in our defense... We were hungy.

[@Deadflower019]

And cold! They weren't called woolly for nothing!

[@kayden2119]

Honestly, it's survival of the fittest, and I am tired of people villainizing humans cause of stuff like this.

[@Deathnotefan97]

@@kayden2119There are many things to blame humans for, mammoths are not one of them No reason to suspect humans are the reason they are extinct, yeah, we hunted them, we also hunted a bunch of other animals that are still around

[@HarshitWise]

@@kayden2119 It is still survival of the fittest. Humans are investing in saving other species because we benefit/think we might get benefit from them in the future. It might not be the direct economic benefit, but it's their genepool and proteome diversity which might be helpful in some future application, who knows? So, save them.

[@chrisowens4550]

@@Deathnotefan97 Its seen as a bit suspicious that the only place megafauna didn't go extinct was on the continent we evolved on.

[@therealquade]

"The 25 year old males being like 'I guess I'll just watch...'" is a sentence I wanted to never hear in *any* context, and would like to go back to a time when I hadn't just heard that.

[@kf10147]

15:30

[@JaydragonM]

😂 25 year old Hank totally had to "just watch" at least once! 😂

[@hopegold883]

But you did.

[@LLivLLaffLLuv]

I’m getting the vibes that Hank has WAY more time now that he’s not the complexly CEO anymore

[@JakobStrasser]

Hank: "The extinction of the woolly mammoths, but." Me: "Wooly mammoth butt...hehehe".

[@timburlingame5893]

ZeFrank moment

[@kurocknotabi]

ZeFrank is a must watch but...

[@peggywoods4327]

Jerry usually has to take the heat for those...

[@richardcollins5189]

​@@kurocknotabi Hehehe... Must watch butt.

[@RaeWong-dk7kq]

Im impressed that elephants have a sort of “consent” happening. Some humans should take note

[@ppsarrakis]

except the brown ones

[@Sugar3Glider]

" *_Do_* Elephant's giant hot testicles make them less susceptible to cancer? The answer might shock you!" ~That one KZbinr

[@lgb4]

Is Hank's hair un-curly-ing? Fascinating.

[@anyascelticcreations]

Probably. They say chemo curls are usually temporary.

[@BringMeTheChildren]

@@anyascelticcreations not to worry! Sometimes they can stay. I have a friend who has cancer and she has straight hair before hand, 3 years later she has the curliest hair I've ever seen

[@itsROMPERS...]

Hair also gets less curly with age. Mine definitely did.

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@BringMeTheChildren oh lucky her! Assuming she likes them. 😊

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@itsROMPERS... Mostly the texture of my hair has changed with age. The white part is less soft than the rest is. It's still super curly. But everyone is different like you said.

[@alanwelch9216]

Male elephants "I'ma secrete stank from glands on my face , and piss down my leg" Lady elephants "damn so sexy" Drunk male Human - Crying in a corner after pissing themselves Female human - Yes officer that guy over there. Sometimes I think i was born the wrong species

[@seigeengine]

The trick is growing until you weigh 3 tons.

[@tealkerberus748]

@@seigeengine Male goats will urinate into their own mouth and all over their beard to make sure all the females in the district can smell them.

[@breviculum5904]

you should try tumblr the women there love guys who cry and piss themselves

[@jabourq]

Gee wizz first we had works cupellating and now mammoths?! You're on some kind of roll, Hank

[@CMBell1985]

Intellectually musthing or whatever

[@Baaluluna]

So you're saying Rhode Island can support 150 mammoths?

[@hankschannel]

I am.

[@ArkManiac]

@@hankschannel that’s not enough though…

[@francescoquadrio5824]

I don't think it scales linearly, it can probably support them for a while but not for several generations because of inbreeding

[@be_cool901]

​@@francescoquadrio5824Inbreeding wouldn't be an issue with 150 elephants

[@be_cool901]

​@@francescoquadrio5824It only really gets bad at like single digit amounts of a species

[@Flierarchy]

Fun fact! Declining populations and poor environmental conditions led to a higher instance of cervical ribs, basically extra ribs all the way up above the collar bone, in mammoth populations. This is a fun fact to me in particular, because at about the same time that research came out, my mom found out SHE has extra cervical ribs when she actually broke one!

[@P4Stalot]

WHAT? how does that affect her neck movement??

[@DrachenGothik666]

@@P4Stalot It wouldn't. The extra ribs aren't attached to her neck, they'd stop at a point under her collar bone.

[@ryanmcintyre3616]

That feels like probably the most natural way to find something you didn't know you had. Me: *breaks something* Also Me: "Oh shit, I didn't know I had that!"

[@trickvro]

It's called musth because while it's happening, that male elephant quite simply m u s t h

[@strangestquarks]

i am at my high school’s powder puff game at the moment, and it’s too hot down here in the south for me to focus on the game, so i’m listening to you talk about elephant sex. thanks hank

[@danielbickford3458]

The difference between these videos and his scishow videos is probably a logarithmic increase in feralness. And honestly I like it.

[@Themongrelable]

Hanks uploads are the epitome of what people mean when they say "doing the lords work"

[@Evaleastaristev]

I love traveling down these rabbit holes with you. Thank you for sharing.

[@danoconnell1833]

I have to imagine that Google has a server dedicated to Hank's search algorithm that regularly just melts down and needs replacing.

[@zachellis147]

"Who's the biggest nerd in your life? They want this!", It's me. I'm the biggest nerd, and i DO WANT THIS! 😆

[@myeswright4214]

6:45 ah yes the three mamoth grenders male 🧍‍♂️ female 🧍‍♀️damaged 🖤🧑‍🎤😭🖤

[@norwd]

Idk man, I “we” may have never seen mammoths having sex but *somebody* definitely has… probably lots of somebodys

[@hankschannel]

Very good point...lots of (dead) people have seen wooly mammoth sex, and that's pretty cool.

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

Maybe one day we'll find a cave painting or pre-historic carving which will answer some of our questions

[@CMBell1985]

​@@hankschannelAre the two things related.. the seeing and the dead..

[@Paleo_Nico]

Writing my thesis on mammoths, such fascinating animals! Hope we get those models, ordered one for myself as a graduation present😊

[@P4Stalot]

That's soooooo cool

[@JohnFrazier]

The discussion of Mammoth nuts makes me uncomfortable, but I’ve backed this campaign regardless!

[@daveSoupy]

Hanks videos like this are my favorites and why he’s such a good KZbinr. It’s a little chaotic, a little rambly, not perfect, but always well presented. I wish other KZbinrs would do stuff like this

[@blandedgear9704]

Mammoths survived on Wrangel Island during the rime when the Great Pyramids were built. Several plants still have spikes to keep their big and high-up mouths off. Several plants still produce fruit which are evolutionarily intended for mammoths and mastodons to disperse, and now struggle along getting dispersed short distances by water.

[@mariannetfinches]

That's so cool. I've heard other stories about adaptations in plants where they must have got that way somehow, but nobody knows what for. Like whoever the adaptation was for hasn't been identified yet. Science is so exciting

[@rodchallis8031]

@@mariannetfinches You might be interested in the story of the Osage Orange Tree.

[@anyascelticcreations]

​@@rodchallis8031And avocados. Think sloth.

[@muhkintosh24]

"The only memory of the bee is a painting by a dying flower."

[@holliegould3463]

reminds me of joshua trees and the giant ground sloths! the sloths were hunted to extinction, and now the joshua trees have to rely on inefficient birds and insects for dispersal and pollination :( if i could bring back any extinct animal, it'd be the ground sloths ❤

[@DovahClone]

Humans naturally feel an aversion to the way their family smells, as the occasional study has shown. I would speculate that this is similar for other mammals who share certain behavior patterns with us, like an elephant or their ancestors.

[@SavannahLogsdonBreakstone]

If you listen to interviews with the scientists, yes, they do think mammoths have an aversion or taboo on consanguinity (second cousin or closer) based on the DNA! This helped soften the impact of a limited breeding pool on long term genetic diversity on the island, as the big inbreeding issues tend to pop up in second cousin or closer matings. Apparently elephants today display a similar taboo on consinguinity as well!

[@YukiDemonOfHell]

oh hey I'm like 90% sure I joined the kickstarter for that guys first foray into figure making! they're absolutely gorgeously sculpted

[@tealkerberus748]

Ahh yes. "Government treaties are like elephant sex. There's a lot of trumpeting and excitement at high levels, but don't expect to see results until a couple of years later."

[@nilsqvis1337]

Some mammals seem indeed to be able to thrive despite inbreeding. In Finland we have a huge population of white tail deer that was introduced from America in the 1930s. The founding population was absolutely miniscule - only 7 breeding individuals. Now there are thousands of them and I don't understand how they haven't succumbed to genetic deterioration.

[@zanderdev57]

Because negative traits died out. I am not a Finn and do not claim to know about your ecosystem, but it is safe to assume that there are wolves and bears there, as well as some kind of cat large enough to hunt deer. Inbreeding is not nearly as bad when there are things that can kill the genetically inferior population. Most of the remaining negative traits are probably just chronic illnesses that arent ever really an issue because the deer dont live long enough to suffer from them.

[@pendlera2959]

Inbreeding concentrates some bad genes, but an underpopulated environment means more nutrition and less competition. Therefore, good mutations also have a better chance of being passed on. Lots of genetically healthy individuals get killed before reproducing. Also, I think our fear of inbreeding is generally overblown. American bison came back from six individuals. Animal breeders routinely inbreed for several generations with plenty of functioning offspring. Even in humans, the royal families are very inbred and yet only a few lines got bad enough to notice (hemophilia is a dominant gene and doesn't count, since it spreads regardless of how closely related the parents are).

[@SavannahLogsdonBreakstone]

If you check out interviews with the scientists in question, they found a shockingly low amount of consinguinity (which they define as second cousin or closer) in the dna samples for how small the initial breeding numbers were, and from there infer mammoths have a similar taboo to consinguinity that elephants do! This low consinguinity rate despite the 8 individuals starting pop means that the negative impacts of inbreeding are lower than in populations with similar starting populations but without a taboo on consinguinity.

[@justinallen2408]

​@@pendlera2959it does count because they got hemophilia from inbreeding originally.

[@Imsosappy]

@13:22 that would have been so cool! ...But if we had, I think your title would have been something like "How we killed of the last of the Mammoths"... Like the Dodo XD

[@SirChrisThompson]

I appreciate Hank's sweet Dial-A-Song tee shirt.

[@MrStupidPantsEv]

0:42 "and I feel like I can speak on this issue because" I am a wooly mammoth.

[@bloomnights]

Stefan Milo did a video on the last mammoths and Wrangel Island recently, I really recommend it! He interviews a scientist from the team that did the paper Hank's talking about, it's really wild stuff

[@SavannahLogsdonBreakstone]

Yes! I watched that! It’s really interesting- she mentioned that there appears to be a taboo on consanguinity in mammoths based on the dna they have, and that that taboo may have helped the long term genetic diversity on the island despite such a small starting population! So cool!

[@bountyjedi]

As we are on the topic of mammoth reproduction, let me share a Swedish joke about the extinction of the Mammuths: "Varför dog mammutarna ut?" "För det fanns inga papputar." English Translation (almost works): "Why did the Mammoths go extinct?" "Because there weren't any Daduths." In Swedish "Mamma" is Mom, and "Pappa" is Dad.

[@greggougeon4422]

So something else I read that was really cool about mammoths is that most depictions of them with trunks being held like modern elephants . Because of the cold they lived in they might get frostbite on the trunk. So it evolved to flatten out and roll up to keep warm. It was discovered on a frozen baby mammoth.

[@annafantasia]

WHAT

[@pothos9913]

I also wish we had those teeny tiny horses that used to roam North America.

[@darcieclements4880]

Or any of the other dozens of species that were wiped out despite having previously been domesticated once the mutation in our current modern horses occurred giving them stronger backs. You can actually follow the extinction wave as people replace their local horses with the new mutants.

[@sarahc882]

hank it’s 2am here and i have an 8am lecture but yes please tell me all about the mammoths

[@sarahc882]

oh my bad, tell me all about the mammoths’ SEX HABITS😭

[@MBMCincy63]

😂: save to watch later . 😂

[@gulcinkabay1887]

​@MBMCincy63 what if there are more than 700 videos there already 😅

[@FlintSparkedStudios]

Was it worth it

[@AristophMarloque]

I was not expecting Hank Green to become my new go-to for regularly scheduled animal sex facts, but it's the world I live in, and I guess I'm here for it?

[@willhouston588]

Hank Green: Elephant Perv

[@elaijah4622]

Now we just have sir moths...

[@johnwerner69]

I definitely do not regret having this on while cooking

[@tristankang5704]

4:15 … the female is cheesing..?

[@Idefilms]

I just made a joke about starting a new website, Days Since Hank Green Last Mentioned Animal Sex, but it definitely got flagged by the spam filter

[@FirstNameBunchANumbers]

4:19 Female elephants are real girls' girls is what I'm hearing. Women protecting women, we love to see it

[@inlandmist5503]

About the tusk stuff, that is where geology and forensics collide. We can actually tell what environment they were in and their experiences in that environment based on chemical traces and growth patterns..... but interesting video.

[@BobSmith-tm2kj]

as much as I love mammoths I don't have enough money for this right now. BUT IF IT WERE PLATYBELODON WE WOULD BE HAVING A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION

[@Psittacus_erithacus]

Platybelodon is a stretch goal that unlocks at $265k. So tell all your friends, I guess, as it's a real possibility.

[@StygianEmperor]

yes i'd rather have to eat more to support metabolically-expensive gene-stabilizing processes than have testicles on the outside please fix this

[@mariannetfinches]

Ok hold still and don't panic

[@quickshot4050]

Good way to keep off weight nowadays lol

[@brandonbogisch2657]

Given how intelligent elephants are and how well they remember specific details for decades, I do think the theory that the mammoths on that island deliberately avoided inbreeding holds up very well.

[@albatross4920]

If woolly mammoths were still chugging along while the Egyptian pyramids were built, does that mean that they technically survived into recorded history?

[@DrachenGothik666]

Since "recorded history" dates back more than 6 thousand years (check out ancient China for instance for just one mostly contiguous history of one culture), that would be a yes.

[@rodchallis8031]

It's subtle, but if one pays attention when travelling north/south through Toronto, one would notice terraces. These are in fact ancient shore lines of glacial lake Algonquin. It's in the gardens on the edge of these terraces that a few lucky Torontonians have unearthed mammoth teeth.

[@Praisethesunson]

If they were still around We would have turned them into a series of very warm hats and jackets.

[@mariannetfinches]

You make that sound so lovely

[@fraserbrown1511]

12:54 Speaking as a PhD student studying palaeontology in Australia, Hank, you're literally talking about Australia and the loss of its megafauna.

[@obansrinathan]

Which megafauna were lost in societal memory? I thought most died out with the first people to arrive in Australia. I suppose the Tasmanian tiger is a similar case only smaller but was there any megafauna that died out with European invasions?

[@phaex2003]

@@obansrinathan Theres still some megafauna present today, and some that got extinct during recent times, the term "megafauna" is tricky, because it makes you think that only big animals are part of it, but megafauna is used to describe every animal that appeared during the beggining of the last ice age

[@tristanneal9552]

That episode of Legend of Korra where they find an island with a bunch of sky bison that didn't die out suddenly seems less far fetched.

[@girafarig7859]

Bro, those mammoth figures would make CRAZY ttrpg pieces.

[@carterhyde908]

@4:49. No Hank, the Rhino is a victim. That elephant could not get a female to agree before he got tired of asking.

[@CharlieApples]

I live in Montana and do not understand why mammoths didn’t congregate here according to the map. It’s cold as fuck, there’s glaciers lying around, and lots of wide open plains to roam. They’d just _look_ right here, among the moose and bears and elk. Like you’d drive past one on the side of the road without even registering what you just saw, they’d fit in that well.

[@zanderdev57]

Because they need so much food and there might have been more nutritious foods elsewhere. They probably also were about as smart as our elephants and just learned their favorite migration routes.

[@crackedemerald4930]

wasn't montana in mammoth times a ice sheet?

[@phaex2003]

Montana was very different during the last Ice Age, it was a giant ice sheet

[@TheKingShyGuy.]

This sounds like a science based punk rock song

[@djarum69]

You know that if we had discovered an island with 300 mammoths on it, we would have eaten them all.

[@rossjennings4755]

Sad but true.

[@s.l.summers2958]

It’s giving “People who love giraffes who love giraffes” 🦒 1:15

[@0-M72-0]

I still dont understand why how much sex wooly mammoths had has something to do with how close we were to getting them. They could have way more or way less, and we would have still hunted them to extinction.

[@itskdog]

First giraffes back in 2007, now worms & mammoths... Edit: and elephants

[@rateeightx]

7:26 Hank doesn't know off-hand how long Elephant Gestation is? Gotta watch more Crash Course I guess. I still remember it from Crash Course World History wayyyy back when.

[@leofreaking]

Haven't watched the video yet but mammoths was the biggest lie of my childhood. When I was a kid in the late 90s early 00s they repeatedly told us we would clone mammoths in the next years, but nothing!!!

[@gnarlgoyle]

They did they just turned them into a meatball

[@angrytourist]

Came here to say exactly this. Made me look like a damn fool running around excitedly telling people about Mammoth clones. lol

[@FlintSparkedStudios]

@@gnarlgoyleeven that was a lie. It was like a goat meatball with some mammoth dna in it.

[@darcieclements4880]

Oh that was way too early. We're still working on it but it's pretty close now except for the ethical debate about using an elephant pregnancy term to grow a mammoth which will be on its own without the social support that they really need nor the proper habitat and we are talking about a very intelligent animal here that we're basically going to make and then torture because we can't give it what it really needs. So yeah that's a cool debate. Probably would be better to bring back something smaller with a shorter gestation time first so we can make a whole group of them at the same time.

[@daemon4621]

@@darcieclements4880yeah and maybe something we know is. Small. And. Not smart. However that is measured 😅

[@karensprague8857]

My husband: *walks into the room* Me: Hank is telling me about animal sex Husband: *with an air of nostalgia* Ah, in true form.

[@trumanmohr1153]

If you think about it, we really ended up in the more interesting timeline vs the one where mammoths didn't go extinct, because if mammoths hadn't gone extinct, they wouldn't've been as interesting to us. They would just be like water buffalo to us or something.

[@the-witness8811]

how the heck did i end up listening to a documentary about mammoth sex at 2 am?

[@imgcqt]

me too man me too

[@MichaelKocha]

0:35 "...the extinction of the wooly mammoth's butt."

[@R.M.MacFru]

Oh yeah, mammoths and mastedons were all around the Great Lakes. Every now and then one gets uncovered during construction. Last one I recall, a farmer in Chelsea found mammoth remains in his field while digging to have new irrigation system put in. The farmer contacted the University of Michigan, and the paleontology department did an extremely fast excavation as the farmer had a time table to get his irrigation done and crops harvested.

[@Flobby99]

When I was in school I had a History teacher who would sometimes use the rare expression "I couldn't give a fish's earhole." to describe his lack of interest in something. Years later I discovered that growth rings in earbones (otoliths) can be used by scientists to trace the geographic and biochemical life history of a fish.

[@powpuckmobile9226]

External testes are an adaptation unique to boreoeutherians (there some exceptions like whales, which lost them secondarily), which elephants are not.

[@brandibeloved1959]

8:55 GIANT HOT TESTICLES 😂 Oh, what we may find... Down the rabbit hole! 🕳️ Thank you for that side splitting laughter, Hank!

[@kateh7484]

That’s a LONG time to be pregnant 😮

[@DanielMWJ]

And they only give birth to a 200 lb. baby elephant.

[@Jacob16845]

Instructions unclear I soiled myself around a group of women and am now in a cell awaiting trial.

[@thomashaapalainen4108]

Fuck fact. Asian elephants are closer to the wooly mammoth than they are to modern African elephants.

[@GhostsOfThings]

No for real though wooly mammoths have been one of my favourite animals since I was a kid and once I found this out I think about it on a regular basis. It drives me up the wall. Simultaneously exciting and frustrating.

[@SavannahLogsdonBreakstone]

Have you watched the interview stefan milo dis with a scientist doing the wrangle island research? It was really good and very interesting!

[@GhostsOfThings]

@@SavannahLogsdonBreakstone I'll check it out thank you!

[@jiminboo]

3:47 WTF is up with your bookshelf Hank? 😂

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

It's a custom design he asked for! I can't remember the craftsperson at the moment, tho he made a couple videos about it.

[@YaBoiFratata]

First off, R.I.P. Mammoths. Hopefully Colossal Biosciences comes through and hooks us up! Second, BRO.! I grew up watchin the SciShow in my 5th grade science class (I'm about to be 24) and for some reason I'm JUST NOW finding out you have your own channel?!. Seriously just gotta say, YOU! are one of the main reasons I actually enjoyed being in class! I wish I could remember my teachers name but, if she never had us watch your videos, I woulda flunked that class without a care 100%. Fr tho, when we started studying cells, she put on your plant & animal cell anatomy episodes and I swear THAT SH!T brought some of the coolest, funniest, and straight up most fun times I've ever had at school! Glad to see your still kickin and kickin a$$ by the looks of it haha! Fr yo, thank you for all you've givin us! Love ya man and hope your doin good! Now plz excuse me, I gotta lotta catchin up to do!

[@call_me_va]

I see Hank Green has watched the latest watched Stefan Milo ^_^ (I recall John mentioning him in a DH&J episode, that's how I know of him too)

[@dawn8293]

8:34 the more important question is why can't humans have them internally. My husband is very annoyed at having this unnecessary tactical vulnerability. Think of the gymnastics that men could do if they weren't afraid of the balance beam?

[@pawprint9025]

To answer your question Hank, no the rhino doesn't want to be involved. It has shown the Ivory poaching has decreased the amount of older bull elephants, causing the younger bulls to act out due to the older bulls not correcting them.

[@rubzlovespancakes]

You know what we would have done if we found an island with woolly mammoths on it? We would eat all of em, like the big furry giant tortoises they are. Nom nom nom.

[@splashfreelance2376]

I absolutely loved your guitar solo on 'Devil Inside'. Probably the best non-distorted guitar break in the last 40 years. And now mammoths? Mr Green, you are my hero.

[@elijessen5851]

Between this and the worms I'm guessing the chemo libido loss is no more. I'm here for weirdly horned up Hank.

[@SleepyTinksy]

I cannot tell you how much these random tangents and rabbit holes bring me joy. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being you, and sharing it with the rest of us. Your random rabbit hole rants make me feel more normal lol.