If you'd like to see even more of Kemosabe the prehensile-tailed porcupine from Animal Wonders, enjoy this playlist of his adventures: ua-cam.com/play/PL2Ol2gat902epYapeYEleBknJttmJthOj.html&si=W1xPouFDHlw0jFJa
Gonna miss the lil guy a lot... I'm only a teeny bit disappointed that among the sounds clips they didn't include Kemo saying "Hi" to Hank, and Hank saying "Hi" back with complete surprise all over his face hehe
I DIDN'T REALIZE MY PIN IS ACTUALLY KEMOSABE!! That is wonderful!! I'm certain that whatever he's doing now, he's being just as adorable as ever. Rest well, lovely friend. I'm so happy to have your portrait. P S The pins are lovely and well made. I highly recommend.
in russian they're called somewhat weirdly, 'dikobraz', which means 'a wild image' if translated literally, but when combined like that, nobody thinks about this as a word meaning anything but this animal
We've got an ambassador prehensile-tailed porcupine at my zoo named Lucy, and seeing the thumbnail I just went "Oh, it's a Lucy!" before remembering that's *not* the name of the species
Whatever happened to Mike Aranda? We don't see him anymore and we also didn't get one final goodbye video hosted by him like other hosts who left. He gave a glimpse of the growth of his magnificent hair during the pandemic though.
I fell in love with prehensile tailed porcupines the first time I heard one eating in a video. It literally sounded like it was saying "Om nom nom, oh my, oh my"! PS: I always love the tale of brave little caviomorph ancestors rafting their way across the Atlantic on clumps of debris. IMO, the Americas have some of the cutest rodents. In addition to Kemosabe's kinfolk, there are capybaras & maras & vizcachas & chinchillas & kangaroo rats & pocket mice & beavers & lemmings! SO adorable...
I love that you guys talked about the different reasons species can have similar traits but not be directly related. Side note, my whole family has kemosabe shirts. So comfy and cute!!
I recently got to see a Prehensile-tailed porcupine at the lincoln park zoo. The enclosure was kept dark with a dim light at the front, meant to recreate the day light outside at the time. It was so weird looking for him in the back where it was pit black and see him waddle around the front then waddle back into the dark as he wandered around
Way too cute and the sound they make is adorable! Plus they are somewhat WTF in appearance.... but still uber cute. We have owned guinea pigs, and you wouldn't suspect that they were related. Our piggies were cute and silly and very, very squealy! One piggy was particularly squealy when he detected the crinkling sound of the bag of hay, and his squeal would hit the nitrous kit and go up to 11.
pour one out for all the porcupup parents out there who have to contend with an infant *that can climb.* Immediately. Like dang at least when humans are done with labor the infant *can't get up and run* until there's been some recovery time XD
I recently got the Kemosabe shirt, and I've been wondering how he's doing since I couldn't find any recent information. Thanks for the update. In loving memory ❤
you're not terribly far off! the patagonian cavy is most closely related to capybaras and guinea pigs! they're a south american rodent, I hadn't heard of them until animal wonders showed theirs in videos. I always thought they looked like a rabbit-deer myself
I live in Costa Rica amongst the Spine Pigs. They are SO adorable. But the sound was so unsettling when we first heard it in the dark night of the jungle. The Kinkajou is also a very cute prehensile tailed creature with an unsettling soundtrack 😅
I had the pleasure to see one of the porcupines with prehensile tail in person here where I live (Central Brazil) they are Soo cute, but at the same time, you can see how big are the spines on them, and even from distance you know it's a no touchy creature
6:50 I️ know they were probably just chilling on these piles of floating debris but wouldn’t it be hilarious if they built the little boats themselves to go exploring
I be watching y'all's stuff a lot. Probably more than twice as I often pop y'all's vids up when I speak about specific animals to people in the local area I'm in. I had a crazy idea, Unique Dwellers, like the ancient, and the earliest origins of each of them. And how humans live in similar ways. Like a bird builds a nest, a hermit crab decorated it's shell, and the I think it's called a log cabin bug. Or whatever it is called that sticks sticks on its back. And the world of symmetry. How our lives aren't so different. Human in a way live like ants, ants serve under a queen, like bees, similar to use, we Americans depend on a president and a government. we also communicate through dancing or pointing or by speaking. I'm a weirdo. So don't mind me. I enjoy everything y'all upload.
Porcupines are fabulous critters, all kinds from wherever! Talking about them floating over to South America from Africa makes me think of The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett and all the critters he talked about floating to XXXX on driftwood, including camels! 😊
I watched a video of a woman being quilled by an african porcupine. My god! I had no idea how big their spines are. Each one was about as thick as a pencil. Compared with the little needle quills of new world porcupines, these were something else.
How did I miss Kemosabe leaving us? Now I'm sad. I don't know if there are any prehensile tail porcupines that will ever make those wonderful sounds. RIP Kemosabe. We'll miss you. 🥺❤️❤️❤️❤️
So like would both new and old world porcupines having quills but getting to that point separate ways be the same evolutionary wildness that is how we have lots of crab-like crustaceans but few true crabs, (i.e the evolve to cover tummy with tail trait, crab shape is good shape)???
The prehensile tail and general body plan to me this looks like a spiny opossum. Are they more closely related to those than to north american porcupines?
Porcupines, in general, as a species, have the most adorable, child like sounds when they eat. Don't believe me? Simply look up "Porcupine My Corn" in the search bar.
Edit: You can tell I watch Eons too, lol, I went off about what I learned from that episode before you even mentioned it, lol Aren't African porcupines part of the ancestor/sister taxon to the caviomorphs of South America, though? Like the quills did evolve convergently, but they're still more related to one another than just both being rodents. They're both in the rodent infraorder Hystricognathi
During that time, the continents of Africa and South America were much closer too.. If you prescribe to the gentle continental drift theory and not the sudden shifts during magnetic pole reversals which can unseat land masses.
when i first heard the fact of rodents surfing from Africa to South America i was like "no way they can shred like that". But 45mya ~ was long enough ago Africa and South America were closer so like maybe they can shred like that frfr
You make it hard to find the original video with Hank, that you are commenting. I clicked on all of the linked videos and couldn't find it. Do you even have the reference listed?
Do you mean the Vlogbrothers video or the SciShow video? Here is the Vlogbrothers video: ua-cam.com/video/Wf9xg7f72Bs/v-deo.htmlsi=6CnRH7wYzFe3gRU9 And here is the SciShow video: ua-cam.com/video/Xz3btMhdQ6Y/v-deo.htmlsi=m_1ri1t4FyHmyMSm
@@BizarreBeasts Thanks. I meant the Vlogbrothers, that was the one I was looking for. Not sure if I missed that one from all your references and the platform doesn't make it easy to reference stuff more user friendly. Especially when there are more than 10 references.
The sound isn't all that different from North American porcupines who are just casually talking to each other. It is a lot different from the chittering noise they make when they are uncertain, or when two male are arguing about territory. I wonder if South American species, including the ones shown here, also chitter?
The way a primate defends itself from attack and the way a rodent defends itself are fundamentally different, there was never a selective pressure for monkeys to become tough to bite from the outside because they already could get away from danger just fine with their opposable thumbs and intellect. It’s kinda similar to the reason people can’t grow wings, even though it would be nice to have wings, there is absolutely no benefit to our species in GRADUALLY evolving those wings, the half-evolved wing people would be wasting their energy growing crappy non functioning wings, just so that a few hundred million years later, their ancestors would have functioning wings, it’s just not how it works.
Porcupets. Moment they are born they can hang around in trees by their prehensile tails. Human Babies: Moment they are born they cannot function without 24 care, cannot support their own head for months.... Sigh, and we are the top of the food chain?
If you'd like to see even more of Kemosabe the prehensile-tailed porcupine from Animal Wonders, enjoy this playlist of his adventures: ua-cam.com/play/PL2Ol2gat902epYapeYEleBknJttmJthOj.html&si=W1xPouFDHlw0jFJa
RIP Kemosabe. You were a phenomenon and a terrific ambassador of your species. @animalwondersmontana
NNooo did Kemo die? He was the best!!!
I had never even heard about his species, before he was featured 👍🏻
We will miss you and your lil nomnomnoms
Press F for Kemosabe
Gonna miss the lil guy a lot...
I'm only a teeny bit disappointed that among the sounds clips they didn't include Kemo saying "Hi" to Hank, and Hank saying "Hi" back with complete surprise all over his face hehe
Kemosabe had the world's most boopable snoot. We'll love you forever buddy. ❤
😪😪😪
I DIDN'T REALIZE MY PIN IS ACTUALLY KEMOSABE!! That is wonderful!!
I'm certain that whatever he's doing now, he's being just as adorable as ever. Rest well, lovely friend. I'm so happy to have your portrait.
P S The pins are lovely and well made. I highly recommend.
"Thorn pig" is just too friggin cute x3
Thats similar to what they are called in German Stachelschwein - Spike pig
@@michaelmichael2382 That's super neat! Thanks for sharing :3
@@michaelmichael2382 Stekelvarken in Dutch so it has the same naming convention.
in russian they're called somewhat weirdly, 'dikobraz', which means 'a wild image' if translated literally, but when combined like that, nobody thinks about this as a word meaning anything but this animal
@tochka832 What a neat little factoid! Thanks for sharing. :3
We've got an ambassador prehensile-tailed porcupine at my zoo named Lucy, and seeing the thumbnail I just went "Oh, it's a Lucy!" before remembering that's *not* the name of the species
Whatever happened to Mike Aranda? We don't see him anymore and we also didn't get one final goodbye video hosted by him like other hosts who left. He gave a glimpse of the growth of his magnificent hair during the pandemic though.
I clicked just for Kemosabe. I couldn't help it. RIP little man. I love you!!!
Who else thought until relatively late in their life (in my case, until I was in about middle school) that porcupines and hedgehogs were related?
RIP Kemosabe, marshmallow nose
Omg, PORCUPETTES are incredibly cute and amazing
Yet another episode of "amazing things I never knew I didn't know but am glad I now do"!
RIP Kemosabe
The Kemosabe pins are really well made! And very cute!
I fell in love with prehensile tailed porcupines the first time I heard one eating in a video. It literally sounded like it was saying "Om nom nom, oh my, oh my"!
PS: I always love the tale of brave little caviomorph ancestors rafting their way across the Atlantic on clumps of debris. IMO, the Americas have some of the cutest rodents. In addition to Kemosabe's kinfolk, there are capybaras & maras & vizcachas & chinchillas & kangaroo rats & pocket mice & beavers & lemmings! SO adorable...
I love that you guys talked about the different reasons species can have similar traits but not be directly related. Side note, my whole family has kemosabe shirts. So comfy and cute!!
I discovered Kemosabe via Vlogbloggers shortly before he passed. Such an excellent creature.
I recently got to see a Prehensile-tailed porcupine at the lincoln park zoo. The enclosure was kept dark with a dim light at the front, meant to recreate the day light outside at the time. It was so weird looking for him in the back where it was pit black and see him waddle around the front then waddle back into the dark as he wandered around
Like actual muppet sounds❤❤❤
Manatee nose
Beaver voice
Monkey tail
Porcupine quills
Way too cute and the sound they make is adorable! Plus they are somewhat WTF in appearance.... but still uber cute.
We have owned guinea pigs, and you wouldn't suspect that they were related. Our piggies were cute and silly and very, very squealy! One piggy was particularly squealy when he detected the crinkling sound of the bag of hay, and his squeal would hit the nitrous kit and go up to 11.
Porcupette!!! That is so adorable!
Aww what a cutie he was , RIP little fella, and thanks for the memories 💕😘
I'm really enjoying these Season Zero episodes, with the bonus facts. Thanks so much for surfacing all of them and doing this!
You know Hank, we have porcupines up here in Canada as well!
pour one out for all the porcupup parents out there who have to contend with an infant *that can climb.* Immediately. Like dang at least when humans are done with labor the infant *can't get up and run* until there's been some recovery time XD
Kemosabe was awesome, farewell and rest in peace little buddy!✌️💚
Keep up the lovely informative videos.🌞
Oh my god he squeaks! He yells! He’s so cute!
I recently got the Kemosabe shirt, and I've been wondering how he's doing since I couldn't find any recent information. Thanks for the update. In loving memory ❤
Porcupines are the most fren shep thing that u cant touch
Can't? I mean, bit ouchie, but I can.
Can carefully touch!😊
Whoa whoa whoa how have I never heard of the creature at 3:35 before? It looks like a mule deer had a baby with a capybara.
it's a patagonian cavy
you're not terribly far off! the patagonian cavy is most closely related to capybaras and guinea pigs! they're a south american rodent, I hadn't heard of them until animal wonders showed theirs in videos. I always thought they looked like a rabbit-deer myself
I live in Costa Rica amongst the Spine Pigs. They are SO adorable. But the sound was so unsettling when we first heard it in the dark night of the jungle. The Kinkajou is also a very cute prehensile tailed creature with an unsettling soundtrack 😅
I had the pleasure to see one of the porcupines with prehensile tail in person here where I live (Central Brazil) they are Soo cute, but at the same time, you can see how big are the spines on them, and even from distance you know it's a no touchy creature
2:12 i need a 1 hours of this.
6:50 I️ know they were probably just chilling on these piles of floating debris but wouldn’t it be hilarious if they built the little boats themselves to go exploring
I be watching y'all's stuff a lot. Probably more than twice as I often pop y'all's vids up when I speak about specific animals to people in the local area I'm in. I had a crazy idea, Unique Dwellers, like the ancient, and the earliest origins of each of them. And how humans live in similar ways. Like a bird builds a nest, a hermit crab decorated it's shell, and the I think it's called a log cabin bug. Or whatever it is called that sticks sticks on its back. And the world of symmetry. How our lives aren't so different. Human in a way live like ants, ants serve under a queen, like bees, similar to use, we Americans depend on a president and a government. we also communicate through dancing or pointing or by speaking. I'm a weirdo. So don't mind me. I enjoy everything y'all upload.
omg I remember the original video... It is 10 years ago now. I better look up funeral options near me 😱
Spine Swine really has the best ring to it.
What a sad way to learn that Kemosabe died. :( He was one of my favorites on Animal Wonders Montana.
Let's not get distracted here;
It's just a plain beaver who's really into The Sex Pistols.
I had a strong gut feeling about a month or so ago that Kemosabe was no longer around, but it still breaks my heart to hear it confirmed. RIP
Little dude has cute noises immortalized on video. Rest in Peace Little Dude.
What a way to find out Kemosabe has passed. I'll always remember him from P4A and that Sci Show talk show episode
Kemo!! ❤❤❤ what a sweet and special guy! Rest in peace ❤️
Kemosabe noises are the best!
RIP Kemosabe! ❤❤ I always loved him!
Hold up, what was the capybara looking deer
I think it is called an Agouti
Patagonian mara. It's in the cavy family along with capybaras and guinea pigs.
Porcupines are fabulous critters, all kinds from wherever! Talking about them floating over to South America from Africa makes me think of The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett and all the critters he talked about floating to XXXX on driftwood, including camels! 😊
Long live kimosabe!
This is literally my favorite animal aaaaaaaaaa
3:35
What animal is that
Nooo RIP Kemosabe. My heart is broken. Such a sweet baby.
So cute!
RIP Kemosabe
I can’t believe THIS is how I find out Kemosabe died
RIP Kemosabe. Fly high ❤️🕊️
Monkey tail needle hogs only sound cute to lure their unsuspecting victims in close.
I watched a video of a woman being quilled by an african porcupine. My god! I had no idea how big their spines are. Each one was about as thick as a pencil. Compared with the little needle quills of new world porcupines, these were something else.
Whoa whoa whoa, timestamp 3:38, WTF is that!! It looks like a cross between a capybara and a dog and a little bit of white tail deer... 🤯
great video, thanks
How did I miss Kemosabe leaving us? Now I'm sad. I don't know if there are any prehensile tail porcupines that will ever make those wonderful sounds. RIP Kemosabe. We'll miss you. 🥺❤️❤️❤️❤️
😭😭NOOOOO!!! Kimosabo!!!! What sad news. He was such a cuty, with his banana nom nom sounds.
That's terrifying. Very unsettling.
This series is the Schneider cut of Bizarre Beasts
Your explaination of how they're related was far more complicated than Hank's.
So "become spiky" is like a milder version of the "become crab" for terrestrial insectivore mammals. Good to know.
I imagine that's what Chucky from Rugrats would sound like as an animal.
😆👍
So like would both new and old world porcupines having quills but getting to that point separate ways be the same evolutionary wildness that is how we have lots of crab-like crustaceans but few true crabs, (i.e the evolve to cover tummy with tail trait, crab shape is good shape)???
The prehensile tail and general body plan to me this looks like a spiny opossum. Are they more closely related to those than to north american porcupines?
Oh god, Kemosabe, noooooooooo. Gone TOO SOON. I'm tearing up over this news.😢. I shall remember his little Yoshi noises forever.
Weird thought, could you make a tiny whistle out of one of those fat smooth quills?
What is the difference between quils and spines?
I really like animals, especially small animals
I just learned of the existence of ice fish, they have clear blood😂
Porcupines, in general, as a species, have the most adorable, child like sounds when they eat. Don't believe me? Simply look up "Porcupine My Corn" in the search bar.
3:34 rodents without spines?
Edit: You can tell I watch Eons too, lol, I went off about what I learned from that episode before you even mentioned it, lol
Aren't African porcupines part of the ancestor/sister taxon to the caviomorphs of South America, though? Like the quills did evolve convergently, but they're still more related to one another than just both being rodents. They're both in the rodent infraorder Hystricognathi
During that time, the continents of Africa and South America were much closer too.. If you prescribe to the gentle continental drift theory and not the sudden shifts during magnetic pole reversals which can unseat land masses.
Love me some Guinea pig footage
when i first heard the fact of rodents surfing from Africa to South America i was like "no way they can shred like that". But 45mya ~ was long enough ago Africa and South America were closer so like maybe they can shred like that frfr
Ahh yes lil squeaky boy
You make it hard to find the original video with Hank, that you are commenting. I clicked on all of the linked videos and couldn't find it. Do you even have the reference listed?
Do you mean the Vlogbrothers video or the SciShow video? Here is the Vlogbrothers video: ua-cam.com/video/Wf9xg7f72Bs/v-deo.htmlsi=6CnRH7wYzFe3gRU9
And here is the SciShow video: ua-cam.com/video/Xz3btMhdQ6Y/v-deo.htmlsi=m_1ri1t4FyHmyMSm
@@BizarreBeasts Thanks. I meant the Vlogbrothers, that was the one I was looking for. Not sure if I missed that one from all your references and the platform doesn't make it easy to reference stuff more user friendly. Especially when there are more than 10 references.
Kemosabe was the GOAT ;-;
The sound isn't all that different from North American porcupines who are just casually talking to each other. It is a lot different from the chittering noise they make when they are uncertain, or when two male are arguing about territory. I wonder if South American species, including the ones shown here, also chitter?
Rest In Peace Kemosabe
Am I the only one to realize that there are wild crested porcupines in Italy ? 🇮🇹 🤯
Like how ?
Since when ?
Too many questions !
Rip kemo
If eagle predation encouraged development of quills, why did other tree top dwelling animals (monkeys) not develop them
The way a primate defends itself from attack and the way a rodent defends itself are fundamentally different, there was never a selective pressure for monkeys to become tough to bite from the outside because they already could get away from danger just fine with their opposable thumbs and intellect. It’s kinda similar to the reason people can’t grow wings, even though it would be nice to have wings, there is absolutely no benefit to our species in GRADUALLY evolving those wings, the half-evolved wing people would be wasting their energy growing crappy non functioning wings, just so that a few hundred million years later, their ancestors would have functioning wings, it’s just not how it works.
Convergent evolution, no?
Poor Kemosabe.
This is not how I was expecting to learn about Kemosabe passing :(
let the man speak, goddammit
Porcupets. Moment they are born they can hang around in trees by their prehensile tails.
Human Babies: Moment they are born they cannot function without 24 care, cannot support their own head for months....
Sigh, and we are the top of the food chain?
I want one
I miss sci-show talk show
Rest in peace Kemosabe, we'll miss your weird voices
Edit: Rodents on rafts?? That's actually hilarious.
Kemosabe😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Chemosaby
I never realized that porcupines are rodents before!
Uh... it IS prehensile tailed porcu
Huh, so that guy on Family Feud was kinda right