A huge thank you goes out to the folks at The Animal Park at the Conservators Center ( animalparknc.org/ ) who not only sent us fantastic footage, but also sent Hank a jar of binturong smells: ua-cam.com/video/6OfMWVLgyFs/v-deo.html
One time, when I was at the zoo and I saw a sleeping binturong. Because of the position that the binturong was sleeping, my brain went "binturong ?" And when I looked at it again, my brain went " monkey ? ".
Trivia for you: Borderlands 3 has a gun in it called the Bearcat. The flavor text for it is "I love the smell of popcorn in the morning." Had to explain the reference to my friends
@@pangetpampam8272 probably, but this is the only one I can think of off the top of my head because it's so specific. The series has hundreds of special named weapons like this. That said, Destiny 1 had a set of spikey arm armor called the "Thagomizer"; the technical name for stegosaur's spikey tail weapons
I'm pretty sure the binturong was conceived from the mind of a kindergarten. It looks like a bear, but it's dog-sized. And it has whiskers, like a cat! And, it has a long tail.... like a monkey! Oh, oh, oh! And, teacher, teacher, its pee smells like POPCORN! * breaks out in maniacal laughter *
@@ChrisJBT2 you mean, venomous mammal.. a plant or animal is only POISONOUS if you consume it and whatever toxins it naturally has eventually messes you up
By far the best part of this channel is the unadulterated enthusiasm that hank and sarah deliver these bizarre beasts with. You can just feel the childlike wonder radiating off of them
I now know what animal Chowder is from Cartoon Network's animated show, Chowder. He is a Binturong. The characters in the show even describe him as a bear-cat thing and no one is able to identify what he is exactly. Thank you Hank. Thank you Bizarre Beasts. You have solved a decade old mystery.
Binturongs have always been my favorite animal, I saw one on an exotic animal segment of a talk show as a kid and thought they were so cool. I got to meet, hold, and feed one at a wildlife conservation center a few years ago. She climbed on my shoulders and wrapped her tail around my neck for security, but was very gentle. Seemed like she would have been content to eat banana chunks out of my hand all day long! She did smell like corn, kind of a musky smell more than an appetizing smell. Definitely a top bucket list item checked off!
SHOUT OUT TO THIS VIDEO FOR BEING THE WAY I DISCOVERED THAT CRASH COURSE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY EXISTS. Hank, you are single-handedly saving my life right now
The binturong has been one of my favorite animals since childhood. I grew up in San Diego and the first time I saw the binturong exhibit at the zoo I became obsessed. It's a "bizarre" question to answer in an icebreaker group. "What's your favorite animal?" "the binturong"...followed by people's confused faces.
Exactly what I had at work😂😂😂 then mentioning the popcorn scent... Had to go on UA-cam to show everyone otherwise it was "right no made up animals" 😂😂😂😂
I too loved the chemistry mini-dive. Especially since while I like popcorn well enough, it's basmati and jasmine rice I really dig. The evolution machine does like to reuse handy building blocks like that. Fascinating stuff.
A friend I have been TRYING to get to watch this series (I’m so close!!) and I were just talking about the Binturong because...her school’s mascot is the bearcats!! I cannot wait to send this to her.
At the zoo I worked at a few years back, we had one .. and it does smell like popcorn. Housing it next to the prehensile-tailed porcupine that smells like a foetid pair of running shoes in which the socks have rotted away made for an interesting experience.
@@Sara3346 I've only worked with the Prehensile-Tailed ones, and North American Porcupines.. and while they don't smell great, but nowhere NEAR what the PHT's do. Like, not even remotely comparable.
i wish you'd talked about the etymology of the name "binturong". obviously english-speaking people saw it as a cross between a bear and a cat or weasel, but how did the people who named it originally see it?
Some say that the meaning of “binturong” has been lost as the native language it comes from is extinct. Adds to the bizarreness of the beast in a way, but very unsatisfying
it’s from malay, I’m a malay from Malaysia and we call it multiple names like menturung, menturun, binturung and tenturun which all may have been taken from the word “turun” which means to go down like how the binturong goes climbs down from trees, bear in mind it is formally called “musang binturung” in formal standard malay, musang meaning civet a type of creature often mistaken with foxes here....... thus musang binturung would mean something like “descending foxes”
In Vietnam we had something very much like that, but smaller, gray, and locals called it a "Banana Cat" but it didn't smell like popcorn. It was a mortal pain in the ass, as it would sleep all day and raise hell all night. Every morning, at least one of the guys would threaten to shoot it. Thank you for your information on the binturong.
I live in Indonesia. My parents owns a farm, and there are a binturong family lives who lives in the area. They have adapted to people so much that they actually live as one of ours. Now we feed them regularly 😂 they are super adorable!
@Poor Quality Gameplay you can when they are tame enough. But I won't advise it. One time a binturong bit me so hard, it won't let my hand go for quite some time. Thank god his fangs did not pierce my skin too deep. I got a full series of rabies and tetanus shot after that.
Binturongs are adorable! Last time i went to the zoo, i saw one navigating some branches in it’s enclosure and then it saw us and misplaced its paw and fell. It got distracted and tripped over itself and that was really cute for some reason
Ok, so that dialog was way too much fun!!😂😂🤪🤪And the little beast was completely new to me, had heard of the other folks in its extended family but not the binturong. So win/win, fun and education ! Your presentations really make this program rock!! Even when you're subject is popcorn scented pee!!🤣🤣🤣
i seriously CANNOT get enough of the quips he makes....but the fact that both hank & sarah are both soooo utterly animated with their explanations and unapologetically sarcastic with the humor is the best bart of this series and why I'm absolutely binge watching every one since I came across it about 5 or so hrs ago :D I've been pacing myself bc once I watch them all and there's no more ... I think I'll sulk while trying to find something else to watch lol
I saw them in person like a decade ago, visiting relatives in the Phillippines. I got to hold one in the Palawan Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Center for a tourist photo. They're really fluffy and warm! I completely forgot the name of the little guy, so this was quite nostalgic! But I didn't smell the popcorn, mostly musk, I guess I was lucky to not have it pee on me during the photo.
I remember you used to (in the vlogbrothers bizarre beasts) include the different variations of the pins at the end. I know there's always a common, a less common, and a sparkly, but I like to see the different versions. And it'd be nice to confirm that I got a non-standard variant! My binturong has red plants in the background.
Love this! But I have a quick question, a QQ if you will... Don't possums have prehensile tails as well? If the answer is no, then I'm going to need another BizzareBeasts episode explaining the definition of prehensile tail.
LOL I'm going to have some interesting thoughts next time I eat basmati rice after that. Thanks, Hank, for yet another enthusiastic dive into the weird and wonderful.
Aah how amazing! I've only learned of Binturongs a few months ago but this was really cool to see and hear more infos because it's such a cool animal :3
University of Cincinnati's sports teams are the Bearcats but that had nothing to do with binturongs, it was born from a joke while playing the UK Wildcats. Cincy was overjoyed to find out there are actually critters called bearcats and the local zoo got one
I love binties! They are such delightfully weird looking mammals. I made up a song that I sing every time I visit the binturong in the San Diego Zoo -- "It's been too long,/ Since I saw you, Binturong!" I ALSO love buttered popcorn jelly beans. If human pee smelled buttery, I bet a lot more of us would have water sport fetishes...
It was quite a shock when I followed the scent at a zoo and there was a sign that said something along the lines of “sorry, that’s the animal ->” I also noticed that my hamster as a kid also smelled like popcorn.
My alma mater’s mascot is the bearcat (University of Cincinnati) so I immediately recognized this bizarre beast! They’d often bring out Lucy, a real binturong from the Cincinnati Zoo, to games or events :) This summer the zoo did a series of “home zoo-fari”s that would each feature one of the animals, and when they featured Lucy I remember the zookeeper mentioning the popcorn smell in the video. I’m glad your video went into more detail about the compound responsible for it! I’m a big chemistry nerd and I thought that was awesome 🤓
This just sounds like a pokemon. Popcorn smell and likes fruit, make it grass type. Cute looking, unfamiliar but also familiar (think eevee), so easy design to throw there.
Ahh I'm so happy I saw this. I remember Hank saying he was making it into its own show. But I totally forgot 😭 but now I won't have to wait a whole month for a new episode! 😁
We always said if our greyhound, Cobble, were a different animal he'd be a binturong: they both lay around in the sun snacking all day, they're both black, and both smelled good.
Has anyone investigated if red pandas are closely related to binturong? There's a lot of morphological similarities, and even a bit of geographical and diet crossover too.
The bearcat is the mascot for Northwest Missouri State University! Loved being one of the few who knew what they looked like and that lovely popcorn smell fact.
Funny thing: The paws of puppets sometimes smell like popcorn - without the butter. I don't know the smell of buttered popcorn. We just use salt. Alternatively, it is the smell of someone cooking jasmine rice.
Ok, I have just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the etymology of this thing. Here's where I'm at: Turns out, there are several different names for it in Malay as well. One of them is 'musang turun', which breaks down into 'civet' + 'climbing/going up'. So, a climbing civet. The part that means 'climbing/going up' is 'turun' and it turns up again in the alternate name: 'tenturun' , which isn't that far away from 'binturung' So what we know is that the name has something to with climbing, but as for the other part of the word, be that a root or a prefix, I have no idea what it means. If you know, please let me know.
Too bad I didn't see this 2 years ago. Some years back the two of us went to Minneapolis on a weekend trip, and one thing we did was visit the Minnesota Zoo, and at that time they had a binturong on exhibit. Yes, its enclosure gave off a funky sort-of-buttered-popcorn odor. While I was looking at the animal, some kid ran up to see and his mother grabbed his hand, complained about how bad it stunk (hey, it's a zoo, lady) and dragged her son away. Sigh. I don't see binturong listed in the zoo's website now, but it's been quite a few years since that day (probably about 10 or so). Still, what an unusual animal to have at a smallish zoo.
I thought they looked more like a raccoon. I showed it to my almost three year old kiddo and asked them what they thought it was and they said, "It's a racooooon!"
They always climb to our house's roof at least once in three months and proceed to pee above there. Yes, their pee is smell sweet, but later it will turns out blah a day later. They are blood enemies of our neighborhood cats 😂😂😂
While I do agree that reducing maternal mortality is very important, wouldn't it be more fitting to donate the profits to an organisation that prevents rare and endangered "bizzare beasts" from going extinct?
Hank and John made a plea to collect some big amount of money for Partners in Health, and only after that the Bizzare Beast pinclub started (originally on Vlogbrothers chanel), so they just linked it with the biggest cause they support.
@MsBlulucky why don’t you make a video for Project 4 Awesome on behalf of an organization that saves rare and/or bizarre endangered creatures? That would be most fitting.
I remember seeing this animal for the first time on the show Going Wild With Jeff Corwin on the Disney Channel. (Back when Disney was awesome.) Anyway, I had the pleasure to see this amazing animal in the small Ararat Zoo at the Ark Encounter.
Omg, one of our rival high schools' mascot is a "bearcat" and we used to chant "what's a bear cat?" at football games. I had no idea what a bearcat was or if it even existed. Now I guess I have to admit it's a legitimate, albeit somewhat odd, mascot for a school
Also worth mentioning that diacetyl is some really gnarly stuff for health and safety too. If inhaled (which happened primarily at microwave popcorn factories originally) it can cause a slew of lung problems. It sounds niche.... Until it was put into vapes for popcorn and butter flavored mixes, where it got a wider outlet and caused more cases. Buttery vape has been removed from the EU for this reason but it's still perfectly fine to eat... Assuming you don't eat enough that you are being exposed to it as an aerosol, like a man in the US who was eating enough that he started to experience symptoms. (A federal court in Denver awarded him damages)
That makes so much sense Visiting the enclosure of Binturons in Pairi Daiza in Belgium, the whiff of popcorn was overwhelming. At the time, we just thought some of the other visitors ate popcorn qroumd this enclosure 😐
A huge thank you goes out to the folks at The Animal Park at the Conservators Center ( animalparknc.org/ ) who not only sent us fantastic footage, but also sent Hank a jar of binturong smells: ua-cam.com/video/6OfMWVLgyFs/v-deo.html
could you check this one out as a candidate? /watch?v=jxDshM_TLrk
Is this also why my dog's feet smell like popcorn?
One time, when I was at the zoo and I saw a sleeping binturong. Because of the position that the binturong was sleeping, my brain went "binturong ?" And when I looked at it again, my brain went " monkey ? ".
Question: what are/is the use of fangs if molars are the workhorse?
Trivia for you: Borderlands 3 has a gun in it called the Bearcat. The flavor text for it is "I love the smell of popcorn in the morning." Had to explain the reference to my friends
Bearcat was also in bl2
Are there also other guns with animal based references in the series?
@@pangetpampam8272 probably, but this is the only one I can think of off the top of my head because it's so specific. The series has hundreds of special named weapons like this.
That said, Destiny 1 had a set of spikey arm armor called the "Thagomizer"; the technical name for stegosaur's spikey tail weapons
Q makes the Honey badger and some other real guns named after critters
@@Infernoraptorafter the late Thag Simmons
I'm pretty sure the binturong was conceived from the mind of a kindergarten. It looks like a bear, but it's dog-sized. And it has whiskers, like a cat! And, it has a long tail.... like a monkey! Oh, oh, oh! And, teacher, teacher, its pee smells like POPCORN! * breaks out in maniacal laughter *
YEsssssss
Cannon ACCEPTED
@@ChrisJBT2 you mean, venomous mammal.. a plant or animal is only POISONOUS if you consume it and whatever toxins it naturally has eventually messes you up
I'm in love with that mindset and humour if yours~
The end got me! I can't imagine a kindergarten kid laughing maniacally lol
By far the best part of this channel is the unadulterated enthusiasm that hank and sarah deliver these bizarre beasts with. You can just feel the childlike wonder radiating off of them
You should go watch his video when he gets a bottle of binturong pee in the post... ua-cam.com/video/6OfMWVLgyFs/v-deo.html
I now know what animal Chowder is from Cartoon Network's animated show, Chowder. He is a Binturong. The characters in the show even describe him as a bear-cat thing and no one is able to identify what he is exactly. Thank you Hank. Thank you Bizarre Beasts. You have solved a decade old mystery.
It's also what the Warner Siblings are.
Binturongs have always been my favorite animal, I saw one on an exotic animal segment of a talk show as a kid and thought they were so cool. I got to meet, hold, and feed one at a wildlife conservation center a few years ago. She climbed on my shoulders and wrapped her tail around my neck for security, but was very gentle. Seemed like she would have been content to eat banana chunks out of my hand all day long! She did smell like corn, kind of a musky smell more than an appetizing smell. Definitely a top bucket list item checked off!
YAAAY! Bizarre Beasts day! My favourite day of the month! This series is the best thing going on the world right now.
This and Journey to The Microcosmos channel are brilliant
Journey to the Microcosmos is indeed great. But so is PBS Eons.
I can agree with that. LoL
SHOUT OUT TO THIS VIDEO FOR BEING THE WAY I DISCOVERED THAT CRASH COURSE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY EXISTS. Hank, you are single-handedly saving my life right now
The binturong has been one of my favorite animals since childhood. I grew up in San Diego and the first time I saw the binturong exhibit at the zoo I became obsessed. It's a "bizarre" question to answer in an icebreaker group. "What's your favorite animal?" "the binturong"...followed by people's confused faces.
Exactly what I had at work😂😂😂 then mentioning the popcorn scent... Had to go on UA-cam to show everyone otherwise it was "right no made up animals" 😂😂😂😂
Not gonna lie, despite binturong being cute and weird, the chemistry part was the best. I am a chemistry student, though, so I am obviously biased.
I too loved the chemistry mini-dive. Especially since while I like popcorn well enough, it's basmati and jasmine rice I really dig. The evolution machine does like to reuse handy building blocks like that. Fascinating stuff.
A friend I have been TRYING to get to watch this series (I’m so close!!) and I were just talking about the Binturong because...her school’s mascot is the bearcats!! I cannot wait to send this to her.
At the zoo I worked at a few years back, we had one .. and it does smell like popcorn. Housing it next to the prehensile-tailed porcupine that smells like a foetid pair of running shoes in which the socks have rotted away made for an interesting experience.
Do all tree porcupines stink so strongly or just that one?
@@Sara3346 I've only worked with the Prehensile-Tailed ones, and North American Porcupines.. and while they don't smell great, but nowhere NEAR what the PHT's do. Like, not even remotely comparable.
I love Hank’s non-serious, exasperated outrage haha, cracks me up every time. “WHO is making POPCORN in the JUNGLE???” 😂
i wish you'd talked about the etymology of the name "binturong". obviously english-speaking people saw it as a cross between a bear and a cat or weasel, but how did the people who named it originally see it?
THIS!
Yes!!!!
Some say that the meaning of “binturong” has been lost as the native language it comes from is extinct. Adds to the bizarreness of the beast in a way, but very unsatisfying
it’s from malay, I’m a malay from Malaysia and we call it multiple names like menturung, menturun, binturung and tenturun which all may have been taken from the word “turun” which means to go down like how the binturong goes climbs down from trees, bear in mind it is formally called “musang binturung” in formal standard malay, musang meaning civet a type of creature often mistaken with foxes here....... thus musang binturung would mean something like “descending foxes”
In Vietnam we had something very much like that, but smaller, gray, and locals called it a "Banana Cat" but it didn't smell like popcorn. It was a mortal pain in the ass, as it would sleep all day and raise hell all night. Every morning, at least one of the guys would threaten to shoot it. Thank you for your information on the binturong.
I live in Indonesia. My parents owns a farm, and there are a binturong family lives who lives in the area. They have adapted to people so much that they actually live as one of ours. Now we feed them regularly 😂 they are super adorable!
@Poor Quality Gameplay you can when they are tame enough. But I won't advise it. One time a binturong bit me so hard, it won't let my hand go for quite some time. Thank god his fangs did not pierce my skin too deep. I got a full series of rabies and tetanus shot after that.
So they're walking around leaving messages saying "Netflix and chill?"
X'D
You're... not wrong.
XD
Popcorn, very fitting for Netflix and chill.
I've noticed dwarf hamster pee smells like popcorn if they've got a lot of sugar in their diet. Interesting to learn what chemistry causes it.
I love how delightfully-weird this youtube channel is.
Binturongs are adorable! Last time i went to the zoo, i saw one navigating some branches in it’s enclosure and then it saw us and misplaced its paw and fell. It got distracted and tripped over itself and that was really cute for some reason
I did not expect this video to give me an explanation to why i always think someone's making popcorn when it's actually basmati rice i...
Ok, so that dialog was way too much fun!!😂😂🤪🤪And the little beast was completely new to me, had heard of the other folks in its extended family but not the binturong. So win/win, fun and education ! Your presentations really make this program rock!! Even when you're subject is popcorn scented pee!!🤣🤣🤣
I came across your video and really enjoyed it, I wanted to share the video I did on the Binturong in cooperation with the Brookfield Zoo
i seriously CANNOT get enough of the quips he makes....but the fact that both hank & sarah are both soooo utterly animated with their explanations and unapologetically sarcastic with the humor is the best bart of this series and why I'm absolutely binge watching every one since I came across it about 5 or so hrs ago :D I've been pacing myself bc once I watch them all and there's no more ... I think I'll sulk while trying to find something else to watch lol
My grandma's neighbor used to feed a semi-tame one every now and then to stop it from rummaging through the trash, a chonker of a binturong.
I saw them in person like a decade ago, visiting relatives in the Phillippines. I got to hold one in the Palawan Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Center for a tourist photo. They're really fluffy and warm! I completely forgot the name of the little guy, so this was quite nostalgic! But I didn't smell the popcorn, mostly musk, I guess I was lucky to not have it pee on me during the photo.
I remember you used to (in the vlogbrothers bizarre beasts) include the different variations of the pins at the end. I know there's always a common, a less common, and a sparkly, but I like to see the different versions. And it'd be nice to confirm that I got a non-standard variant! My binturong has red plants in the background.
I used to work at a zoo with one of these. He had a habit of curling around your neck. And pooping in his food bowl.
I'm only 0:19 seconds in, and I can't get over how much I LOVE Hank"s shirt 🤣 hahaha, looking crisp as always my dude! 😉👍
yeeesss! i love binturongs, they're so goofy and cute! very happy to see an episode dedicated to these cool creatures!
Love this! But I have a quick question, a QQ if you will...
Don't possums have prehensile tails as well?
If the answer is no, then I'm going to need another BizzareBeasts episode explaining the definition of prehensile tail.
Yes they do
LOL I'm going to have some interesting thoughts next time I eat basmati rice after that. Thanks, Hank, for yet another enthusiastic dive into the weird and wonderful.
omg Kratt's creatures flashbacks to Popcorn, their binturong friend
Natural Habitats brought me here. "No guys I don't smell like popcorn".
I’m researching the binturong in class and this helps so much for me to learn! Thank you!
These guys would give the robots from Mitchells vs. The Machines a short circuit with the latter trying to analyze them.
Aah how amazing! I've only learned of Binturongs a few months ago but this was really cool to see and hear more infos because it's such a cool animal :3
University of Cincinnati's sports teams are the Bearcats but that had nothing to do with binturongs, it was born from a joke while playing the UK Wildcats. Cincy was overjoyed to find out there are actually critters called bearcats and the local zoo got one
I love binties! They are such delightfully weird looking mammals. I made up a song that I sing every time I visit the binturong in the San Diego Zoo -- "It's been too long,/ Since I saw you, Binturong!"
I ALSO love buttered popcorn jelly beans. If human pee smelled buttery, I bet a lot more of us would have water sport fetishes...
Makes sense that the smell plays a role in finding mates. Like, I am pretty sure that even I would find more mates if I smelled like popcorn...
It was quite a shock when I followed the scent at a zoo and there was a sign that said something along the lines of “sorry, that’s the animal ->”
I also noticed that my hamster as a kid also smelled like popcorn.
That's a good sense of humor to have around smelly animals. 😅
I don't know if this knowledge makes me more or less interested in eating buttered popcorn.
My alma mater’s mascot is the bearcat (University of Cincinnati) so I immediately recognized this bizarre beast! They’d often bring out Lucy, a real binturong from the Cincinnati Zoo, to games or events :)
This summer the zoo did a series of “home zoo-fari”s that would each feature one of the animals, and when they featured Lucy I remember the zookeeper mentioning the popcorn smell in the video. I’m glad your video went into more detail about the compound responsible for it! I’m a big chemistry nerd and I thought that was awesome 🤓
Aledo Bearcats, Aledo, TX, represent here!
So binturongs have been pissing on our popcorn all this time? Those bastards!
@gildedvulture7965
Next Time You have Popcorn 🍿 You Can have Your Pet Binturong Spray on it .
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"I've got a yellow liquid for your popcorn, and it's non-dairy"
What a wonderful animal! Thank you for getting into such details re the composition of their scent marks. I hope they will survive
This has been my favorite animal for so long. I'm so glad other people are learning about it too know.
No one expects flavored jelly beans to taste like the actual food
I petted a binturong at the Singapore Zoo years ago. Can confirm that they do smell like popcorn.
This just sounds like a pokemon.
Popcorn smell and likes fruit, make it grass type. Cute looking, unfamiliar but also familiar (think eevee), so easy design to throw there.
Ahh I'm so happy I saw this. I remember Hank saying he was making it into its own show. But I totally forgot 😭 but now I won't have to wait a whole month for a new episode! 😁
Hank casually slamming the chemistry channel killed me.
How did I not know Hank Green does this?! Instantly subscribed :)
Ah! My school’s accidental mascot! (They didn’t know a Bearcat was a thing, but the bio department likes to joke about it)
Bearcats! I saw them at an aquarium once (not with the fish of course)! I could've watched them for hours, they're great!
I love the "I just came from a Jimmy Buffet concert" vibe here.
Love the shirt Hank. I’ve really been getting into the tiki subculture recently
This animal looks like it was made up by a child.
I love it so much.
We always said if our greyhound, Cobble, were a different animal he'd be a binturong: they both lay around in the sun snacking all day, they're both black, and both smelled good.
theyre very cute. give them more credit for cuteness
This video was such a delight, I smiled the whole way through. Thanks for sharing info on this weirdo fluffy tailed beast!
Yes! I knew it must be related to racoons when i saw it!
Man, I'm looking forward to adding this pin to my collection. It looks great. I have every single one so far.....I might have an issue.
Bearcat is pretty accurate to their physicality if not their genetic lineage.
I feel lucky to have wild binturong visiting my house, mostly at night.
Has anyone investigated if red pandas are closely related to binturong? There's a lot of morphological similarities, and even a bit of geographical and diet crossover too.
The Kratt brothers taught me this info during their zaboomafoo days😅
I once saw this as a kid, hanging out in a tree. I told my mum, she believed me but my dad didn't.
I LOVE BINTURONGS! No one knows what they are but I think they are SO cool. I’d love a video on the civet as well!
The bearcat is the mascot for Northwest Missouri State University! Loved being one of the few who knew what they looked like and that lovely popcorn smell fact.
Funny thing: The paws of puppets sometimes smell like popcorn - without the butter. I don't know the smell of buttered popcorn. We just use salt. Alternatively, it is the smell of someone cooking jasmine rice.
This is my favorite animal! I always try to describe it as something straight out of the world of Dr. Seuss.
Ok, I have just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the etymology of this thing. Here's where I'm at:
Turns out, there are several different names for it in Malay as well. One of them is
'musang turun',
which breaks down into
'civet' + 'climbing/going up'. So, a climbing civet.
The part that means 'climbing/going up' is 'turun' and it turns up again in the alternate name:
'tenturun' , which isn't that far away from 'binturung'
So what we know is that the name has something to with climbing, but as for the other part of the word, be that a root or a prefix, I have no idea what it means.
If you know, please let me know.
Ah, yes, the bearcat. I ran into one of those in the Earth Kingdom once. Knocked over all my cabbages.
We love ya Hank! Love this channel too :-)
It's face reminds me of the Madagascar Fossa. I think it's the eye's. This animals tail is crazy. They are so unique and odd.
Too bad I didn't see this 2 years ago. Some years back the two of us went to Minneapolis on a weekend trip, and one thing we did was visit the Minnesota Zoo, and at that time they had a binturong on exhibit. Yes, its enclosure gave off a funky sort-of-buttered-popcorn odor. While I was looking at the animal, some kid ran up to see and his mother grabbed his hand, complained about how bad it stunk (hey, it's a zoo, lady) and dragged her son away. Sigh.
I don't see binturong listed in the zoo's website now, but it's been quite a few years since that day (probably about 10 or so). Still, what an unusual animal to have at a smallish zoo.
Was I the only one obsessed with these after seeing “popcorn” the binturong on zaboomafoo?
Runs to learn about Genets and Cuvets too!
I loved these great creatures at The Carnivore Preservation Trust (Carolina Tiger Rescue now). They LOVED bananas and blood oranges
Aw my boys! I work along with these guys they're so unusual! Also way bugger than you think. And yes. They smell.
I actually got to see these in a zoo once, and it absolutely smells exactly like popcorn. Bizarre, indeed.
I thought they looked more like a raccoon. I showed it to my almost three year old kiddo and asked them what they thought it was and they said, "It's a racooooon!"
Nice to see an animal I recognize! Binturongs are so cool!
They always climb to our house's roof at least once in three months and proceed to pee above there. Yes, their pee is smell sweet, but later it will turns out blah a day later. They are blood enemies of our neighborhood cats 😂😂😂
Just about everything smells more like popcorn than popcorn jellybeans
Listening for the binturong, yet only pondering the details of why you may not enjoy a bowl of buttery popped kernels.
"ey! ey, you! what do you call yourself!?"
"buttercup"
While I do agree that reducing maternal mortality is very important, wouldn't it be more fitting to donate the profits to an organisation that prevents rare and endangered "bizzare beasts" from going extinct?
Hank and John made a plea to collect some big amount of money for Partners in Health, and only after that the Bizzare Beast pinclub started (originally on Vlogbrothers chanel), so they just linked it with the biggest cause they support.
@MsBlulucky why don’t you make a video for Project 4 Awesome on behalf of an organization that saves rare and/or bizarre endangered creatures? That would be most fitting.
I remember seeing this animal for the first time on the show Going Wild With Jeff Corwin on the Disney Channel. (Back when Disney was awesome.) Anyway, I had the pleasure to see this amazing animal in the small Ararat Zoo at the Ark Encounter.
Omg, one of our rival high schools' mascot is a "bearcat" and we used to chant "what's a bear cat?" at football games. I had no idea what a bearcat was or if it even existed. Now I guess I have to admit it's a legitimate, albeit somewhat odd, mascot for a school
Was your rival high school Aledo, by any chance? Hello from there! 🙋
I sent this to my popcorn obsessed gf with the text "look honey it's you"
There's on mounted at a local restaurant and the plaque says it was killed locally. I live in southeast Louisiana.
"The scientists who are researching their pee" is not a sentence I thought I would hear today.
I swear I've thought my own urine smells like buttered popcorn on occasion.
Also worth mentioning that diacetyl is some really gnarly stuff for health and safety too.
If inhaled (which happened primarily at microwave popcorn factories originally) it can cause a slew of lung problems. It sounds niche....
Until it was put into vapes for popcorn and butter flavored mixes, where it got a wider outlet and caused more cases. Buttery vape has been removed from the EU for this reason but it's still perfectly fine to eat...
Assuming you don't eat enough that you are being exposed to it as an aerosol, like a man in the US who was eating enough that he started to experience symptoms. (A federal court in Denver awarded him damages)
My dog (RIP Lily) had feet that smelled exactly like popcorn despite never eating it. And *always* smelled like popcorn. Was weird as!
That makes so much sense
Visiting the enclosure of Binturons in Pairi Daiza in Belgium, the whiff of popcorn was overwhelming. At the time, we just thought some of the other visitors ate popcorn qroumd this enclosure 😐
Dang, I haven't eaten popcorn for twice as long as you...aren't we so lucky? NO!
'so I haven't had popcorn for fifteen years because of my chronically diseased colon...' 😮 2:44. Bro wtf?!!!
This show is lovely, thank you.