Comments by "Wobbles And Bean" (@WobblesandBean) on "Casual Geographic" channel.

  1. Fun fact: elephants might be the only other species on earth that cries emotional tears.
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  2. YES. Yes, we should! I'm a zoologist and my god, I am tired of people wasting millions of dollars trying to save the evolutionary dead end when there are so many keystone species who need that funding.
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  3. Yes. All of this. As a zoologist and rehabber, it frustrates me to no end.
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  4. ​ @pinkbombshellcasing2672  You're unfortunately correct. It's hard to get people to care about tiger sharks, cassowaries, bees, american alligators, or the gopher tortoise. But what about the sea otter? They're a critically endangered keystone species, their numbers are plummeting, and they're cute af, the WWF should make them their new mascot!
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  5. Hi, zoologist here. There's strong evidence that the giant panda was headed for extinction long before humans nearly wiped them out. They're objectively worthless creatures, and it's long past time we just let them go.
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  6. ​ @Jai_and_privacy  Lol nope. Pandas were already dying out way before humans came along and began taking down the bamboo forests. Humans are the only reason they still exist at all.
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  7. ​ @shiggydiggy8308  SAVE THE SHARKS! Not just cuz they're awesome but we're kinda screwed if they're gone, lol.
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  8. ​ @shadycatz85  I know. I hate it. Especially because there is no such thing as a "wild pigeon". Every single pigeon you see in major cities are all descendants of birds like Cher Amie. As pigeons became outdated by technology, most were just...let go to fend for themselves. That's also why pigeons suck at building nests, they're a domestic bird who never had to build nests. Humans provided them. So they're just trying to do their best.
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  9. 11:00 Nope. As an actual zoologist, I will fight you on this. Rats are one of the nastiest animals on earth. They groom a lot in order to spread musk from a gland onto their fur. You'll notice where a rat superhighway is in your house, because they'll leave behind a thick, foul-smelling layer of it on your walls. They also don't have a fully developed bladder or "backdoor" shall we say, so they are constantly dribbling foulness everywhere they go, which is why their tails are hairless, if they had fur back there it'd get immediately matted with their own brand. Speaking of going, they are instinctively drawn to fresh water in order to contaminate it. They're extremely good at spreading disease this way. It's for that reason that rats are the natural reservoirs for over thirty zoonotic diseases. Over thirty. And that's just the ones we can catch, the actual number is much higher. Included on their microbial rap sheet are leptospirosis, tularemia, and rat bite fever, which ALL rats carry, including pets. Wild rats are also extremely aggressive, much like squirrels they will murk pretty much anything en masse. They accomplish this by launching themselves at a larger animal's face, which you can see in many videos here on youtube. Their goal is to go for the eyes. Rats are responsible for wiping out more wildlife each year than any other wild animal. The only ones who top them are domestic cats and dogs. Oh, and you thought they stopped at nerfing the census of other animals? Nope. These things have eaten human babies alive. I don't recommend looking up pictures, it's.... it's not pretty. It's a large enough problem in many developing countries that they've had to invent special cribs that make it difficult for rats to climb up.
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  10. 2:47 Hi, zoologist here. This is false, birds actually have a very good sense of smell. It's just that mama birds don't care cuz frankly, there are plenty of stranger smells up in that nest.
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  11. 2:40 Terror birds have been renamed to "demon ducks of doom". Please respect my ducky ancestors.
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  12. It's a good thing he caught it, the chocolate bar woulda made that little Tazzy past tense.
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  13. 13:50 I have experienced this with dolphins and orca. They are probably the only other animals who rival elephants and intelligence and emotional capacity, and you can truly see the profound depth of their sapience in their eyes. They have names. They have language. They have culture. They even have fads, please look up the "salmon hat" trend of the 90s and its glorious return 40 years later, just like human fads do. And yet, just look at how we treat them. Female orca are pretty much guaranteed to lose their first calf by accidental poisoning, because of PFAS chemicals contained in their own milk. And yet the US just voted in a guy who plans on rolling back 50 years of environmental protections and pump even more PFAS's into the ocean. We're talking about an animal who has a larger, more developed, and more neuron-dense emotional center in their brains than we do. So the bonds they feel with their offspring not only equals our own, they might was surpass it. So you can only imagine the devastation they feel from this loss. And because of us, every single female orca will experience it at least once. Some go through it 3-4 times before their talks and load is finally low enough that their calf can survive until weaning. ...And we call ourselves civilized?
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  14. 10:10 It's actually happened. We have a confirmed case of CWD occurring in a human.
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  15. I once stayed up for 5 days during finals week when I was young. I couldn't do it now. Even back then, it was a baaaaad idea. You start having audial hallucinations after day 3, visual ones after day 4.
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  16. How many times have you found a Huntsman in your house?
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  17. I love Mr. Kes 💜 The guy watching them had to step in and provide food once or twice, but Mr. Kes did everything!
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  18. ​ @cleosvoyage  No. It's cuz his eyes were vibrating.
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  19. 7:30 It's the same with the irukandji jellyfish. It's an adorable penny-sized relative of the box jelly.
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  20. Hi. I'm a zoologist. And you're objectively wrong, many animals do engage in play behavior. Not sure why you think humans are special in that sense.
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  21. Thanks for this. This makes my zoologist heart happy. Also, if you ever need a researcher, I'm available 😁
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  22. Exactly. There is no record anywhere of a captive gorilla murking a child.
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  23. 5:45 Not true! New research shows at least some birds have a VERY good sense of smell. Waterfowl and herons, for example, were noticed always lurking around grass farmer's lots around mowing days to gobble up the free bug buffet that cutting the grass always revealed. So much so that we figured out the compounds that make "cut grass smell", and sprayed it on a field that hadn't been cut. Then they pretended to mow an adjacent field, but just ran the mower without actually cutting anything, and threw some old dried out grass colored green on top to mimic the appearance of freshly cut grass. All the birds went to the old, uncut field with the isolated grass smell put on it. So it's obvious that they were going by smell, not sight or by the sound of the lawnmowers. Isn't that fascinating?
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  24. Thanks for this. I've long known all of this, but getting others to understand it, well...not so much. Pigeons also make great pets, they're one of the most affectionate birds you'll ever find. They're quiet, smart enough to be housetrained, and are very cuddly.
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  25. I still think ducks are the funniest animal. They're arguably one of the most successful animals on earth, and you look at them bumbling around and ask "....How?"
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  26. I am a zoologist. There are few animals I truly despise, but hyenas are one of them. Norway rats are another.
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  27. 4:50 I wish you'd talk about how dogs are the second most destructive animal on earth. They past tense more wildlife than any other animal except domestic cats. But no one talks about the problem.
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  28. They also are doomed to lose their first baby because us humans keep pumping lipophilic PFAS toxins into the oceans, mostly from the ungodly amount of plastics we throw away. Orca have a larger and more developed amygdala than we do, so they feel the loss of their baby even more deeply than we do. Hi. Actual marine mammal zoologist. Don't use plastic, kids.
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  29. I still can't understand how a goat that starts out so beautiful, turns into THAT thing.
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  30. Awe, but I love pidge. Rabbits, on the other hand...
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  31. Cheetahs ARE genetically FUBAR, but not for that reason. There was a massive bottleneck in their population about 10,000 years ago, so cheetahs are pretty much all cousins.
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  32. All that stuff from the beginning also applies to cuttlefish, moray eels, and ducks.
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  33. 7:10 How dare you
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  34. 13:00 YO TALK ABOUT MUSK DUCKS THEY MIMIC HUMAN SPEECH TOO
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  35. All men should own a cart.
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  36. Hi, zoologist here. Kalugos are very similar to the creatures primates evolved from. Say hi to your great great⁹ granddad, everyone!
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  37. Regarding the octopus getting roasted, you should go find the dive where they first discovered the pugaporcinus, aka the flying buttocks worm. 😂
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  38. As a zoologist, I am forever fascinated by what other animals find sexy. Can you imagine if humans flirted like camels?
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  39. 8:50 Hi, marine mammal zoologist here. It's our fault orca babies keep getting murked. PFAS toxins from our plastics are lipophilic, and through biomagnification and bioaccumulation, orcas are full of them. That poison then goes into their milk, and straight into the baby. They also have a larger and more developed amygdala than we do, so they feel the loss far more than any human. And that's saying a lot. It's because of us and our plastic use. All y'all are just as responsible.
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  40. EEEEE YOU HAVE A GINGER KITTY
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  41. Manakins are a genus, not a species.
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  42. Why are you so devoid of joy?
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  43. Hi, zoologist here. I'm surprised you didn't mention Norway rats. They are the single most destructive, murderous wild animal on earth. Only domestic cats and dogs have them beat for pure carnage and number of species eradicated.
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  44. 3:25 Bees can tell time, too.
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  45. It's just a fact. Kids are perpetually trying to find creative ways to become past tense.
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  46. And thus is why I love birbs 💜
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  47. Nope. They were supposed to die out a long time ago, they are absolutely pointless and they were already headed towards extinction long before humans began destroying their habitat. There are thousands of vital animals called "keystone species" that if gone extinct, will cause the _entire ecosystem to collapse. Yet hundreds of millions of dollars that could be spent on their conservation and protection, gets funneled into saving the most objectively useless animal on earth instead, just because people like you think they're cute. It's time to let pandas go.
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  48. Really? I love seagulls! It's not their fault we took over their beachfront homes.
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  49. Watching this in hopes that "orca ball" is included.
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  50. As a marine zoologist, I love confusing people by saying hippos are cetaceans.
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  51. And yet humans keep doing it, because they're as dumb as they are short sighted.
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  52. I've seen that raccoon tiktok, and I was so mad. I know as a zoologist, I can't expect everyone to know about their suffering, but it just seems like common sense is wholly devoid in most people these days.
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  53. 5:00 People who live in Alaska WOULD be the type to try and unalive a cat by shooting it and siccing their dogs on it. The deep fryer though, that's...wth, dude? What level of psycho do you have to be to do that to a living animal?
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  54. 3:50 You missed a trick, the only reason male orca don't do well when their mom becomes past tense is because they are dependent on their moms for their entire lives. If the mama gets murked, it's curtains for all of her adult male progeny.
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  55. And now people will finally understand why I'm terrified of rabbits.
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  56. This makes my zoologist heart happy 💜
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  57. 9:40 Literal puff puff pass
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  58. 1:50 This is highly common among murinids, aka rats and mice. As a zoologist, few animals truly scare me, but rats absolutely make that list.
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  59. ​ @greenherooftheinterwebz7078  That's easy, why bother flying when you can ride in style?
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  60. 13:00 Mention. The. Talking. Duck.
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  61. 2:15 Demodex are harmless. In fact, our eyelash follicles are SUPPOSED to host them. They eat our dead skin and make sure our oil glands don't get clogged.
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  62. This is why I have no faith in humanity.
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  63. This makes my zoologist heart happy 💜
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  64. This makes my zoologist heart happy. And yes, I knew all ten 😏 But that's cuz I read biology papers like most people eat potato chips. Fun zoology fact: There is a species of duck that can mimic human speech. Manikins, too.
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