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Might I suggest the next expedition you go on to study a mythical beast be the Amazon's Mapinguari? Or perhaps the Orang Pendek on the isle of Flores. I do suggest avoid the American Appalachian mountain regions unless you like peril. Many, many creatures call the mountain range, the hollers, the forests, rivers, lakes, and fields home. My personal theory on that place is the mountain range actual has a entire hollow pocket underneath the mountain range which allows critters to come and go as they please hiding them from human eyes. Or many of them would just eat humans anyway. Sincerely Prof. Trace of the Q.U.E.S.T organization
I know it probably isnt enough to cover in a video, but perhaps you could cover the biology of minecraft creatures? The skulk family in particular seems decently up your alley, though i wouldnt know 🤷♀️
I just did some research on the Inuit mythology, some very interesting stuff. The thing that caught my attention was the Tuniit (or Dorsett) was actually real. That's kind of wild, i guess it gives validity to the eye witnesses of these creatures. Man the world is still so full of so much mystery and there's still so much for us to discover.
Your work with aquatic creatures is probably my favorite of this whole series. The way you paint their morphology, behavior and evolutionary history really makes one wonder if perhaps these creatures might have existed, or still do to this day
@@juliemesser2053 I know. August too. This person is always commenting this on different videos on different channels. It's funny but at the same time annoying.
@@popularopinion1 That's true. Fear is actually supposed to protect us from danger by making us not do certain stuff or not go certain places. That is why they say that you should always listen to your gut feeling to stay safe.
It's always nice to see more popular channels covering lesser-known mythical creatures. I never thought I would see the qalupalik being mentioned in a video, much less in a speculative biology video
11:43 - 11:45 - I may be wrong but this is the first time he names his team members, Allison and Marcus...I wonder if we'll get more bits of lore in future videos :)
Technically not the first time! There's a link in the channel's about section that directs you to an unlisted video, a short presentation narrated by Marcus, on a channel featuring another video, an autopsy report narrated by Allison (whose name was also briefly mentionned inthe Strigoi video)
That one image with the three figures and the child has always been one of the creepiest illustrations for me. Though for the longest time I was familiar with the image without knowing what it was depicting.
Thank you for covering an Indigenous myth! I live on the unceded Dena'ina and Ahtna lands and grew up with these stories 🫶 they are raw and terrifying.
With how specialized the creature seems to ambush hunting in and under ice flows, I have to wonder how it protects itself from more mobile predators like orcas and polar bears. Avoiding sleeper sharks seems easy enough given their slow movement, but seeing how mammals like seals and moose have consistently been hunted by the slow sharks I would also assume Qalupalik is on a shark's menu.
colors tend indicate poison of some kind, even animals tend to avoid a very colorful animal in the wild if it is a reptilian or fishlike creature. false coloration is something that happens to avoid predation.
I'm loving this series. It's kinda like the SCP series, but about real world mythological creatures and legends from around the world. Some unknown organization is scouring the world for these "cryptids", only to learn they are VERY real and do their best to catalogue and understand this bizarre kingdom of the outlandish.
Would have loved an additional line. " Occasionally this creature miscalculates and attracts the attention of an adult polar bear and the hunter becomes the hunted "
I genuinely wonder if a polar bear would be a definite predator though. The thing looks like it could do some nasty damage to a polar bear. Plus it has more avenues to do damage thanks to those hands.
@@Bandersnatch41 absolutely, polar bears are some of the nastiest things you can run into in the wild. But the issue is the the proposed Qalupalik is a creature that is essentially the opposite kind of apex predator to a polar bear. A polar bear is mainly effective on land for actualll killing but it's no slouch while swimming. But the Qalupalik can confidently latch onto something on land and rip it apart and presumably has similar durability to the bear. Plus, if it can get at the bear while it's in the water I think the bear is fucked.
That is a facinating understanding of the Qalupalik. It also appears to be much uglier than the Siren, not to mention vaguely similar. It's likely to be the work of convergent evolution, thus explaining why the Qalupalik and the Siren are so similar to one another, despite not being related at all. I look forward to seeing what other mythical creature will be studied in the future, TP. I just hope there's gonna be some fantastical creatures that are quite familiar, though much less likely to *kill* you. Nonetheless, this is some good work, and I hope you keep it up! This is a very facinating series, I can tell!
It's a concept I cane up with with my own personal writing as well. It's a genuinely terrifying idea that a) Sirens of myth would be a lot more openly horrifying and b) that they wouldn't just be limited to Greece but instead multiple coastal and marshy areas having regional variabts of the creature.
Yep. This is very interesting indeed. I've been hooked on this ever since the mermaid and siren videos. I've had interesting ideas as well and I hope that he does them.
@@ryonhatcher4561 I watched that one too actually. That was the third video that I watched. That was good too. These videos are always so good and so interesting and provide good scientific ideas.
Likewise. I was always interested in Inuit mythology but I never really got the chance to explore it. This is the first time I've ever heard of this creature and it amazed me. I hope he does more cryptid videos about Inuit mythology creatures.
The "You matter" at the end of your videos helped me out so much. I didn't even notice it at first, but I've listened to your videos often enough that "you matter" became ingrained in my mind. Thank you so so much for that.
I know its forefins are more akin to a goby, but are we sure that it couldn't be a highly derived batrachoidiforme? The 'humming' behavior is quite reminiscent of that family (including the Opsanus specimens I worked with) Excellent video as always! It's always a joy to see your work (especially during this stressful finals crunch) and as a former marine bio student, fun to recognize terms I used to study :)
@@brennacoleman6815 since orcas can absolutely make a meal out of diving meese, can easily see them occasionally prey on qalupalik on sight, with polar bears it may be a 50/50 chance of either of them falling prey to one another
This video was awesome! I love that you’re covering monsters from lesser-known mythology. What other monster are you planning to cover next? One of the many fascinating yokai from Japanese mythology? The Ahool from Java? The Mapinguara from South America? Either way, I know it’ll be fascinating and awesome.
@@ianswinford5570it often lurks in obscure places, sometimes surfacing, often covered in it's own feces, which it hurls in all directions without meaning or maybe pure malice
Giants honestly seem like quite an easy one to explain and thus quick to cook up fairly soon, just a hominid adapted to be thicc and tall, looking like the GoT giants i bet! Trolls def some kind of mionke, and Dragons can totally be some sorta highly derived avemetatarsalians, so like funky cousins to pterosaurs and dinosaurs!
Ya should totally tackle some more cryptic horrors said to haunt the arctic regions, from the possible lycanthrope strains Amarok and Adlet, to the Ijiraq (which interestingly/funnily enough, is said to resemble the bastardized modernized look of the wendigo), Akhlut (possibly a sort of primitive whale/protowhale that was complacent just being semi-aquatic), and the terrible, possibly artificial "demon of vengence", the Tupilaq!
I think something else he could do is cover modern reinterpretations of some cryptids that aren't correct but are still interesting. For example, with the Wendigo my personal justification for the deer like look in my own personal writing is a mixture of the existing Wendigo spirit with Celtic spirits that followed British colonists to the new world. So perhaps in this series if he first covered some kind of Fae he could explain it as perhaps a strange combination of the two transformations.
@@kieranadamson3224 I had a similar idea to that. Why not have some modern inaccurate versions of cryptids as different creatures? For example, the bird-like Siren or something. I think that would be very interesting because if the original ones can be real, why not their modern versions that are much different than the original?
"I do not like the cold. There is a certain quality about it; an inherent loneliness that I've never been able to fully articulate." This has similar energy to "I hate sand. It's rough, coarse, and it gets everywhere".
The qalupalik is one of my favorite creatures I am planing on adding qalupaliks in my monster girl series they would live in a realm with harpies and werebats and they’re society would be inspired by the water tribes from avatar.
The way this series of videos is written is brilliant, and your narration is incredible. There is something in it all that makes me thing of some of the Lovecraft stories I've read, like At the Mountains of Madness maybe. You sound so sincere and make it very convincing! Thank you for uploading another one!
Let's gooo! A great video to watch on my country's independence day 🇧🇧. Are you planning on doing any videos based on caribbean folk lore? I promise you there is no shortage of creatures that would be awesome to research such as the bacoo, chickcharney, duppy and lacou just to name a few. Great video always, keep up the great work.
i'd love to see you do werehyenas! Cause according to the mythos they are magical hyenas that can turn into humans, so i know you'd have a field day with that and it'd be excellent!
Would you consider doing one of these but with a giant monster from mythology like typhon from Greek mythology or cipactli from Aztec mythology. A kind of monster that shouldn’t be capable of existing and yet it does. It could be even more crazy than any other you’ve done
Hi! I got an answer from Mr. Thought Potato on a similar question. Due to their size full-grown specimens of this kind of Qalupalik ad relatively safe from bears, especially when they are in water, where they can get the upper hand and drown them (the situation can change if they get into a bear while they are crawling on the icepacks, where they are sloppy). Major threats for these large predatory fish are parties of killer whales, that can outgrow them and possess better social structure (I suspect that the killer whales' contribution was essential to keep under control the population of Qalualik in this fictional world. Since the premise set by Thought Potato tells us that these videos are from the 1960s', I suspect that the "wealthy population of the bay" described at the end of the video considerably decreased in number, due to climate change and industrial fishing). My best Regards to You!
@@Bluedd17it seems to move around quite a bit more than the Greenland shark, and it probably doesn’t dispose of urine through its skin, it may taste good, if a bit tough
Hi Thought Potato! My congratulations on your work and your choice of the new creature for this winter. This is great! I swear that I was thinking of you about this chilling horror from the north ... but this is far bigger than I could ever imagine. After your revelations in this video, I hope to see other creature amphibious creatures from folklore (some of them also renowned for being "child-snatchers"). Aside from that, I have a couple of questions about the subject of this video: - I'm afraid I have missed the scientific name that you usually give to new species ... does this keep only its local name? - Also, if I understood correctly, its similarities with the appearance of "Sirenus Horridus" are due to convergent evolution, aren't they? (They are not from the same superfamilia)? Due to its size, I was wondering if you imagined some kind of predator-prey (or concurrent) relationships between your Qalupalik and other northern predators like white bears and killer whales? Sorry if I bother You with questions. Thank you very much for all of your efforts. My best Regards to You!
No bother at all! 1. This one was not assigned a binomial--likely due to some disagreements among the team 2. You are correct--the lineage of sirenus and the qalupalik seems unrelated 3. They appear to be an apex predator, though run-ins with orcas can end in violence Thanks for watching and commenting :)
While everyone else is calling this a nightmare, i personally would love to see this in an aquarium. It looks awsome, and any mermaid-like organism is welcome in my opinion.
Human child, human child Ours to have, ours to hold Forget your mother, forget your brother Ours to hold under the ice - "A Promise is a Promise", a children's book by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak about the legend of the Qalupalik. Your video took me back to my childhood here.
The "symazalied" at 0:41 is really intriguing. Probably the first time anything in this series feels like it's deliberately trying to be examined or deciphered.
You should do more lesser-known Cryptids and creatures like the Bake-kujira which looks like a skeletal ichthyosaur Ahuizotl a big cat with a human hand at the end of its tail white river monster A giant carnivorous 12 foot fish that sinks boat and snallygaster weird looking giant bird monster
I just love your narration and presentation, all the work you put into this, so freaking much! Have you ever considered making a video about creatures from brazilian folklore? We have a rich legendarium that's sadly subrepresented and underestimated.
The mental image of something comparable in mass to a horse, being able to throw itself out of the water to grab prey and drag them back into the Depths, is horrifying in so many ways...
It would be cool to see what a Nokken would be like in your version, or any other creature that uses attraction to capture its prey (Sorry for any writing errors)
I love the drawings of this creature that show it out of the water. The tons of teeth, the wet hair. With an eerie human look to it. (I wonder if the coat part of the legend was related to the creature possibly wearing the skin of its previous victims?)
Here’s a recommendation for the series! You can maybe cover other predatory and dangerous mermaids from other cultures and mythologies and group them all in a taxonomical family called “periculo pisces homines”, which are all predatory fish that look human! Just a recommendation!
Should have had the whole forearm be "fingers" that separate more at the end, rather than giving it something resembling a radius and ulna and wrist. It would make it more like an extremely derived fin, or a frogfish's legs, than an amphibian or reptile leg.
I like your disclaimers for these videos being works of fiction, because I find them so convincing, that if I didn't see the disclaimers, then I would assume they were factual documentaries, instead of fictional documentaries.
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This video is so cool
Might I suggest the next expedition you go on to study a mythical beast be the Amazon's Mapinguari?
Or perhaps the Orang Pendek on the isle of Flores.
I do suggest avoid the American Appalachian mountain regions unless you like peril. Many, many creatures call the mountain range, the hollers, the forests, rivers, lakes, and fields home.
My personal theory on that place is the mountain range actual has a entire hollow pocket underneath the mountain range which allows critters to come and go as they please hiding them from human eyes.
Or many of them would just eat humans anyway.
Sincerely Prof. Trace of the Q.U.E.S.T organization
I know it probably isnt enough to cover in a video, but perhaps you could cover the biology of minecraft creatures? The skulk family in particular seems decently up your alley, though i wouldnt know 🤷♀️
You should make a little Christmas special where you explain the biology of Krampus.
if you ever one day consider doing a monster outside of general mythology, the Reavers from Firefly would be a good pick.
I'm so glad you covered a creature from Inuit mythology,which is pretty underrated.
Definitely agreed
@@ThoughtPotatocan you do the Cet'aeni (athabascan legends) Gugwe, and other so called Devil Monkeys next?
I just did some research on the Inuit mythology, some very interesting stuff.
The thing that caught my attention was the Tuniit (or Dorsett) was actually real. That's kind of wild, i guess it gives validity to the eye witnesses of these creatures.
Man the world is still so full of so much mystery and there's still so much for us to discover.
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Your work with aquatic creatures is probably my favorite of this whole series. The way you paint their morphology, behavior and evolutionary history really makes one wonder if perhaps these creatures might have existed, or still do to this day
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@@p-__😂 That's gross. Don't you have Charlie of Moist to bother?😅
Mine too!
@@p-__ Can you please stop this? I've seen you do this on so many different channels. It's getting annoying.
@@juliemesser2053 I know. August too. This person is always commenting this on different videos on different channels. It's funny but at the same time annoying.
I love the way you insert somewhat scientific reasoning to various cryptids and myths. This channel truly is a diamond in the rough.
This channel would have blown my mind as a kid. Love it so much
That thing is the embodiment of my irrational fear of water.
Yes, 100%
That is what it's meant to be, a monster intended to keep you away from the icy water. Especially young children who could easily fall in.
Were it real, that fear would not be irrational
@@popularopinion1 That's true. Fear is actually supposed to protect us from danger by making us not do certain stuff or not go certain places. That is why they say that you should always listen to your gut feeling to stay safe.
Have they been observed, and caught?@ThoughtPotato
It's always nice to see more popular channels covering lesser-known mythical creatures. I never thought I would see the qalupalik being mentioned in a video, much less in a speculative biology video
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@@p-__ -1 brain cells comment 😊
@@Warlord_Gruktak_Rukrak Just ignore him. This guy does it on different channels. He just wants attention.
@@p-__ Just stop okay?
11:43 - 11:45 - I may be wrong but this is the first time he names his team members, Allison and Marcus...I wonder if we'll get more bits of lore in future videos :)
Technically not the first time! There's a link in the channel's about section that directs you to an unlisted video, a short presentation narrated by Marcus, on a channel featuring another video, an autopsy report narrated by Allison (whose name was also briefly mentionned inthe Strigoi video)
@@aardvarkprods oh wow ok cool
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Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Allison die?
That one image with the three figures and the child has always been one of the creepiest illustrations for me. Though for the longest time I was familiar with the image without knowing what it was depicting.
Thank you for covering an Indigenous myth! I live on the unceded Dena'ina and Ahtna lands and grew up with these stories 🫶 they are raw and terrifying.
I like how you actually add in scientific information that could be a biology of a creature from oberservations from locals
With how specialized the creature seems to ambush hunting in and under ice flows, I have to wonder how it protects itself from more mobile predators like orcas and polar bears. Avoiding sleeper sharks seems easy enough given their slow movement, but seeing how mammals like seals and moose have consistently been hunted by the slow sharks I would also assume Qalupalik is on a shark's menu.
colors tend indicate poison of some kind, even animals tend to avoid a very colorful animal in the wild if it is a reptilian or fishlike creature. false coloration is something that happens to avoid predation.
he also did mention their algae can provide camouflage, so orcas and polar bears would likely swim right past a cleverly hidden and still qalupalik
Some of them probably are predated on...which would keep their populations in check.
They have a huge underwater city with condos wifi hot tubs ans green beer 😅
@@rnotalther5189 TRUE
I'm loving this series. It's kinda like the SCP series, but about real world mythological creatures and legends from around the world.
Some unknown organization is scouring the world for these "cryptids", only to learn they are VERY real and do their best to catalogue and understand this bizarre kingdom of the outlandish.
Thank you for unlocking a memory of my father reading me a children's book of this creature and how terrifying it was.
Would have loved an additional line. " Occasionally this creature miscalculates and attracts the attention of an adult polar bear and the hunter becomes the hunted "
I genuinely wonder if a polar bear would be a definite predator though. The thing looks like it could do some nasty damage to a polar bear. Plus it has more avenues to do damage thanks to those hands.
@kieranadamson3224 a full grown polar bear is 10ft tall and are great swimmers. It's not an easy mark
Polar bears are fuckin scary
@@Bandersnatch41 absolutely, polar bears are some of the nastiest things you can run into in the wild. But the issue is the the proposed Qalupalik is a creature that is essentially the opposite kind of apex predator to a polar bear. A polar bear is mainly effective on land for actualll killing but it's no slouch while swimming. But the Qalupalik can confidently latch onto something on land and rip it apart and presumably has similar durability to the bear. Plus, if it can get at the bear while it's in the water I think the bear is fucked.
I was waiting for this comment I basically said the same thing lmao.
That is a facinating understanding of the Qalupalik. It also appears to be much uglier than the Siren, not to mention vaguely similar. It's likely to be the work of convergent evolution, thus explaining why the Qalupalik and the Siren are so similar to one another, despite not being related at all. I look forward to seeing what other mythical creature will be studied in the future, TP. I just hope there's gonna be some fantastical creatures that are quite familiar, though much less likely to *kill* you. Nonetheless, this is some good work, and I hope you keep it up! This is a very facinating series, I can tell!
It's a concept I cane up with with my own personal writing as well. It's a genuinely terrifying idea that a) Sirens of myth would be a lot more openly horrifying and b) that they wouldn't just be limited to Greece but instead multiple coastal and marshy areas having regional variabts of the creature.
@@kieranadamson3224 That seems very interesting. I would like to hear more about it if you're willing to share.
Yep. This is very interesting indeed. I've been hooked on this ever since the mermaid and siren videos. I've had interesting ideas as well and I hope that he does them.
@@JuanEnriqueFloresJr I've been hooked on this series, since the Vampire Video, two years ago.
@@ryonhatcher4561 I watched that one too actually. That was the third video that I watched. That was good too. These videos are always so good and so interesting and provide good scientific ideas.
Can't wait for the next entry into the mermaid biology, the ningen!
A new upload is amazing but even better when it’s a cryptid I never heard of
Oh very good to hear!
Likewise. I was always interested in Inuit mythology but I never really got the chance to explore it. This is the first time I've ever heard of this creature and it amazed me. I hope he does more cryptid videos about Inuit mythology creatures.
The "You matter" at the end of your videos helped me out so much. I didn't even notice it at first, but I've listened to your videos often enough that "you matter" became ingrained in my mind. Thank you so so much for that.
I caught that too when I first started watching this channel a while ago
The kelpie would be really fun to see! it's quie creepy imo
Well I never planned on sleeping today so lets watch yet another great documentary to remember me why I subscribed to you. Love your content!
Thank you! Hope you get some sleep some day
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I know its forefins are more akin to a goby, but are we sure that it couldn't be a highly derived batrachoidiforme? The 'humming' behavior is quite reminiscent of that family (including the Opsanus specimens I worked with)
Excellent video as always! It's always a joy to see your work (especially during this stressful finals crunch) and as a former marine bio student, fun to recognize terms I used to study :)
Also, could a polar bear or orca reasonably eat these things?
@@brennacoleman6815 since orcas can absolutely make a meal out of diving meese, can easily see them occasionally prey on qalupalik on sight, with polar bears it may be a 50/50 chance of either of them falling prey to one another
@@jennyfeare1702 So like mutual predation?
i dont know how the hell you made that humming noise but its genuinely incredibly unnerving, good job
This video was awesome! I love that you’re covering monsters from lesser-known mythology. What other monster are you planning to cover next? One of the many fascinating yokai from Japanese mythology? The Ahool from Java? The Mapinguara from South America? Either way, I know it’ll be fascinating and awesome.
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Why did you feel the need to reply to me to say that?
@@ianswinford5570it's a spam bot, so it isn't just a you thing
I've never seen a spam bot like this, so thanks for letting me know.@@tinaherr3856
@@ianswinford5570it often lurks in obscure places, sometimes surfacing, often covered in it's own feces, which it hurls in all directions without meaning or maybe pure malice
Now all you need is the Ningen to complete the unsettling mer-creature collection.
Please DO continue on with producing these AMAZING videos! They are so fascinating to watch/listen to!
LETS GO MY GOAT
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Next video about biology of giants, trolls and dragons
Giants honestly seem like quite an easy one to explain and thus quick to cook up fairly soon, just a hominid adapted to be thicc and tall, looking like the GoT giants i bet! Trolls def some kind of mionke, and Dragons can totally be some sorta highly derived avemetatarsalians, so like funky cousins to pterosaurs and dinosaurs!
Ya should totally tackle some more cryptic horrors said to haunt the arctic regions, from the possible lycanthrope strains Amarok and Adlet, to the Ijiraq (which interestingly/funnily enough, is said to resemble the bastardized modernized look of the wendigo), Akhlut (possibly a sort of primitive whale/protowhale that was complacent just being semi-aquatic), and the terrible, possibly artificial "demon of vengence", the Tupilaq!
I think something else he could do is cover modern reinterpretations of some cryptids that aren't correct but are still interesting. For example, with the Wendigo my personal justification for the deer like look in my own personal writing is a mixture of the existing Wendigo spirit with Celtic spirits that followed British colonists to the new world. So perhaps in this series if he first covered some kind of Fae he could explain it as perhaps a strange combination of the two transformations.
@@kieranadamson3224 I had a similar idea to that. Why not have some modern inaccurate versions of cryptids as different creatures? For example, the bird-like Siren or something. I think that would be very interesting because if the original ones can be real, why not their modern versions that are much different than the original?
the ijaraq could have been mistaken for a wendigo
@@Hvision0000 But... those look nothing alike, tho. So doubt that
@@jennyfeare1702 fair, maybe a diff strain or something, maybe it hopped from humans to deer somehow, like the lycanthropy
This makes me want a biology video on the Ningen, too.
"I do not like the cold. There is a certain quality about it; an inherent loneliness that I've never been able to fully articulate."
This has similar energy to "I hate sand. It's rough, coarse, and it gets everywhere".
No not really
The qalupalik is one of my favorite creatures I am planing on adding qalupaliks in my monster girl series they would live in a realm with harpies and werebats and they’re society would be inspired by the water tribes from avatar.
😮 Can't wait to read it
Yo, can we get a link?
Here's hoping that you'll cover the Mongolian Death-worm some-day.
The way this series of videos is written is brilliant, and your narration is incredible. There is something in it all that makes me thing of some of the Lovecraft stories I've read, like At the Mountains of Madness maybe. You sound so sincere and make it very convincing!
Thank you for uploading another one!
Let's gooo! A great video to watch on my country's independence day 🇧🇧. Are you planning on doing any videos based on caribbean folk lore? I promise you there is no shortage of creatures that would be awesome to research such as the bacoo, chickcharney, duppy and lacou just to name a few. Great video always, keep up the great work.
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i'd love to see you do werehyenas! Cause according to the mythos they are magical hyenas that can turn into humans, so i know you'd have a field day with that and it'd be excellent!
So glad you covered the qalupalik it's so underated
Another amazing video! I’d love to see you study some more amphibious mythical creatures, possibly the yar-ama-ya-who?
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Would love to see succubus or incubus if possible! I think your study of it would be so fascinating! Love all your vids like these. ❤
An unexpected yet much appreciated addition to the series!
Would you consider doing one of these but with a giant monster from mythology like typhon from Greek mythology or cipactli from Aztec mythology. A kind of monster that shouldn’t be capable of existing and yet it does. It could be even more crazy than any other you’ve done
I imagine polar bears may sometimes take a qalupalik or maybe kill them on sight if they compete for similar prey
Hi! I got an answer from Mr. Thought Potato on a similar question. Due to their size full-grown specimens of this kind of Qalupalik ad relatively safe from bears, especially when they are in water, where they can get the upper hand and drown them (the situation can change if they get into a bear while they are crawling on the icepacks, where they are sloppy). Major threats for these large predatory fish are parties of killer whales, that can outgrow them and possess better social structure (I suspect that the killer whales' contribution was essential to keep under control the population of Qalualik in this fictional world. Since the premise set by Thought Potato tells us that these videos are from the 1960s', I suspect that the "wealthy population of the bay" described at the end of the video considerably decreased in number, due to climate change and industrial fishing).
My best Regards to You!
yooo, its so cool to see cousins lore to be so wonderfully covered
I think the question most of us have is, "Is it delicious when fileted, grilled and basted with garlic butter?"
Since Its flesh composition seems to be similar to the Greenland's Shark I suppose it is not.
@@Bluedd17it seems to move around quite a bit more than the Greenland shark, and it probably doesn’t dispose of urine through its skin, it may taste good, if a bit tough
@@Bluedd17 Buried and fermented for a period of months to make it edible. For a given value of edible, anyway.
Dungeon Meshi mindset.
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Hi Thought Potato!
My congratulations on your work and your choice of the new creature for this winter. This is great!
I swear that I was thinking of you about this chilling horror from the north ... but this is far bigger than I could ever imagine. After your revelations in this video, I hope to see other creature amphibious creatures from folklore (some of them also renowned for being "child-snatchers"). Aside from that, I have a couple of questions about the subject of this video:
- I'm afraid I have missed the scientific name that you usually give to new species ... does this keep only its local name?
- Also, if I understood correctly, its similarities with the appearance of "Sirenus Horridus" are due to convergent evolution, aren't they? (They are not from the same superfamilia)?
Due to its size, I was wondering if you imagined some kind of predator-prey (or concurrent) relationships between your Qalupalik and other northern predators like white bears and killer whales?
Sorry if I bother You with questions. Thank you very much for all of your efforts.
My best Regards to You!
No bother at all!
1. This one was not assigned a binomial--likely due to some disagreements among the team
2. You are correct--the lineage of sirenus and the qalupalik seems unrelated
3. They appear to be an apex predator, though run-ins with orcas can end in violence
Thanks for watching and commenting :)
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@@p-__ Did you know that the Loch Ness monster is a giant eel? Crazy huh
While everyone else is calling this a nightmare, i personally would love to see this in an aquarium. It looks awsome, and any mermaid-like organism is welcome in my opinion.
Human child, human child
Ours to have, ours to hold
Forget your mother, forget your brother
Ours to hold under the ice
- "A Promise is a Promise", a children's book by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak about the legend of the Qalupalik.
Your video took me back to my childhood here.
The "symazalied" at 0:41 is really intriguing. Probably the first time anything in this series feels like it's deliberately trying to be examined or deciphered.
I honestly love winding down after work with these videos!
I took a bite of my Mack and cheese right when when you said cold slimy scales😂😆 I immediately felt like gagging
Can’t wait for you to cover yokai
I’d love to see Thought Potato’s take on the Australian bunyip.
Great work mate. Any chance of the bunyip sometime?
You should do more lesser-known Cryptids and creatures like the Bake-kujira which looks like a skeletal ichthyosaur Ahuizotl a big cat with a human hand at the end of its tail white river monster A giant carnivorous 12 foot fish that sinks boat and snallygaster weird looking giant bird monster
Adding these to my list
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Actually the kujira is a skeleton whale
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@@JeffreyDonn huh looks like a ichthyosaur to me
Wohow a good monster channel! Somehow it was apparent from the very start :)
This is my favorite series ever.
My favorite Inuit book “A Promise is a Promise “
Studying for biology class?Nah.Cryptobiology?YESSSS
bro you need to write a book, this was awesome.
You covered it! Yayyy! Thank you, I was hoping you would and hadn't seen this until now
This was so well narrated, it took me quite a while to realize these are completely fictional accounts. Very well done!!!
I just love your narration and presentation, all the work you put into this, so freaking much! Have you ever considered making a video about creatures from brazilian folklore? We have a rich legendarium that's sadly subrepresented and underestimated.
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Thank you for introducing me to a mythology I didn't know! I hadn't heard of this creature before now.
Face reveal is awesome, I’m glad your wife supports you on your UA-cam career, and I’m very glad to have you on this platform. Merry Christmas.
Love to see your content. I can just imagine how long this video took to make.
The design for the monster is fantastic
Looks like I'm brushing up my cryptid knowledge again.
The mental image of something comparable in mass to a horse, being able to throw itself out of the water to grab prey and drag them back into the Depths, is horrifying in so many ways...
Yay! I only found you recently and I've already binged most of your vids. This was a treat to make the gym visit go faster😂
Orcas: Interesting meal today….
This fish got hands
I love these videos so much
Dude i love your channel and your content 🤘🏻
There is seriously nothing else like it. Such top tier quality stuff!
Epic. Terrifying. Everything I love about this series.
Do the Rougarou from Louisiana next!
I just watched an inturrupting ad without skipping. Apparently, it's called night swim, and it's getting released this January.
Another amazing video as always!
It would be cool to see what a Nokken would be like in your version, or any other creature that uses attraction to capture its prey (Sorry for any writing errors)
Another fantastic and high effort video, well done.
I love the drawings of this creature that show it out of the water. The tons of teeth, the wet hair. With an eerie human look to it. (I wonder if the coat part of the legend was related to the creature possibly wearing the skin of its previous victims?)
I would loooove to see you do the manananggal!
As always, fantastic job on these
The writing and presentation of this video is AMAZING, Fasted Sub of my life
Great video! You should also do a video on the Ipupiara, a aquatic monster from the brazilian tupi folklore
Nice to see my idea be brought into fruition
I hope you will do a video about the Kushtaka.
Very cool video! I can tell you put a lot of effort into it! 👍🏼
I’m so incredibly interested in this topic!!
Yesssss! One of my fave indigenous creatures!
Here’s a recommendation for the series! You can maybe cover other predatory and dangerous mermaids from other cultures and mythologies and group them all in a taxonomical family called “periculo pisces homines”, which are all predatory fish that look human! Just a recommendation!
Artic Mermaids ❌
Artic Sirens ✅
By the way, very interesting. 👍
Amazing work!
I love your videos so much! Always amazing
Should have had the whole forearm be "fingers" that separate more at the end, rather than giving it something resembling a radius and ulna and wrist. It would make it more like an extremely derived fin, or a frogfish's legs, than an amphibian or reptile leg.
I would love to see one covering the Ningen
Have you considered a video on the biology of selkies
I like your disclaimers for these videos being works of fiction, because I find them so convincing, that if I didn't see the disclaimers, then I would assume they were factual documentaries, instead of fictional documentaries.
That would be awesome to see a video about Leshy
Can you cover centaurs?
Imagine an anthology series centered a secret organization trying to document these iterations of cryptids.
More videos on Inuit mythology please
Can you please do one about the hydra