Zoologist Reacts To Your Horrible Halloween Decorations
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- What do zoologists think of your animal-themed Halloween decorations? They're terrible! What do they get wrong? And what do they get right? Clint takes a look at some horrifyingly inaccurate skeleton decorations to see what we can learn from these anatomically incorrect abominations.
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My man, you laughing at the "best Halloween decoration of all time" makes me laugh so hard as well. Like my god! That person seems to have NEVER seen a cat XD. You are great and you have a new viewer out of me. You have a great laugh.
It reminds me of the Lion of Gripsholm Castle in Sweden. It was a taxidermy job of a lion owned by an 18th century king where the taxidermist never saw a live lion and it was amazingly awful.
@@varedna Was that nessesary, now i almost lost my breath from laughter whan that poor thing came to my mind directly after the cat...
And/or it's face, at least SOMEHOW!??
If a black cat and a squirrel had a baby...
@@vanissaberg5824 With a beaver...
"We don't make snake skeletons because snakes don't have skeletons."
The tarantula:
"they don't make snake skeletons, because snakes don't have skeletons"
*makes octopus skeleton*
I would have asked him to google the titanboa skeleton.
*WELP*
Lol
@@michaelshort2388 but your channel doesn't have any zoology content. what Google would it do to send anyone there?
@@RabblesTheBinx read my comment again, specifically the first four words "If I were Clint"
"It was unacceptable, we had to get rid of them."
"Daddy, why are you throwing my toys away?" "They are an abomination unto zoology!"
Ngl,I would to
Lol this guy knows his zoology
If your kid is super interested in animals, there's a good chance they're going to get curious about biology. And they WILL point out what's wrong when given the chance.
Source: I was into dinosaurs specifically when I was 6 and I got super sick of Kangaroo Rex toys.
@@OtakuUnitedStudioI always hated I could never find feathered dinosaur toys
I'm like, severely against teaching children lies about real world. Santa Claus and other obviously ridiculous stuff is 100% made up, but deliberately teaching something wrong about existing things? Jail for 1000 years
I laughed way too hard at the phrase: "This cat I found at the Halloween store where snakes don't have skelettens."
That cat reminds me of Wilfred the Cat...
*skeletons
@@hyehehe-hb7zk"skelingtons
They’re actually designed that way as it scares people who know and like animals.
FACT!
Jupp. Special made for zoologists and biologists to make it extra horrible. Enjoy.
My mom still buys them for me because I'm a total animal nerd. She tries to find the most accurate ones though. I really appreciate it honestly.
I beget the cat one, but the realistic bird one was cooler and scarier imo than the inaccurate one!
A vertebrate spider would actually be horrifying. Imagine it having flesh all over its face and body.
i love the answer a friend gave me for the spider skeletons.
"necromancers have a lot of little bones laying around, and some times get bored"
I've seen a few skeletal monsters in fiction which are similar to this idea
The few coming to mind are;
a dragon made of human skeletons... how it gets the skeletons is probably worse than you think
A scorpion-like creature made out of the bones of a wolf and several other undetermined animals (the head was still a wolf skull. That's how I remember the wolf)
And a "demon" that looked like a t-rex with a styracosaurus skull (though the skull still had t-rex teeth)
Was gonna say, why is no one talking about how much more terrifying the idea of someone making a spider out of rabbit bones is.
@@allantidgwell5624 how does it get the human skeletons?
@@ThylineTheGay it magically pulls the skeletons out of people without breaking the skin leaving the person a still living sack of flesh and organs. Yes, I did say still living
@@allantidgwell5624 that is an incredibly cursed mental image.
That cat reminded me of the cats in medieval paintings, where it was always a question of “Have you ever seen a cat before?” and the artist’s like “Yea, totally”
I’m actually a big fan of these anatomically inaccurate skeleton decorations, because they all almost invariably look like Someone squash and stretched a human skeleton to fit the visual profile of an animal, like an anatomical diagram of someone who studied human skeletons extensively but has never even seen any other kind of skeleton. Something about that gives them a really interesting aesthetic.
They're all cosplaying as human skeletons
Like some horrific flesh sorcerer stretched a poor human into the shape of an animal
@@thedeviantguy Yeah, I’m imagining a necromancer creating these undead skeleton animals but all he has to work with/understands is human bones
Well it's funny since in reality all mammals have the same bone structures just stretched out into different profiles
makes for a good bit of body horror for sure
"snakes don't have skeletons" is up there with my former coworker insisting crocodiles were mammals because, get this, of the way they walk.
Really interesting idea, because crocodiles can actually walk with their legs under their body, in a not-completelly-sprawled position, just like most mammals, and unlike most reptiles and lizards. The other kind of non-extinct animal who does that is birds, but all birds are bípeds, so it's harder to see the resemblance.
So give your coworker some credit. They had good observations, even if their results were "a little" off due to an incomplete research....
How about “Tick is a tiny beetle“ ? (It's actually closely related to mites, arachnids)
I recently met this one guy who didn't know that trees are plants. He thought that they were their own thing.
@@DissedRedEngie excuse me? Xd
@@DissedRedEngie well... That's almost understandable, Trees are pretty weird and different compared to most other plants... Except for the leafs...
I've been working at Spirit Halloween this season... and always cringe when I walk past the display of octopus skeletons. OCTOPUS skeletons.
Oh no!!!
They also sell bat skeletons that have ears. Not quite as bad as the octopus, but still very wrong.
Just think of em as silly cartoony toys like the blanket ghost, but I get ya
Oh yeah I forgot about those....I think I just blocked them from my mind because its to stupid for my brain to deal with
I clicked on an ad for Halloween skeletons. They were selling a ‘family pack’ of those and I had to stop looking.
I'm honestly impressed that the snake skeleton even had ribs. Most snake skeleton decorations I see are basically just spines with a head.
I love that he brought out the cat just to laugh at, like it’s not even a skeleton 😆
The worst I saw in our stores is an octopus skeleton. AN OCTOPUS SKELETON. WITH BONE SUCKERS.
Long story short, I named him Henry.
And is Henry a good companion?
@@Nirrrina The very best
😆😆😆😆 Welcome home, Henry.
henry
@@cloerainflower pls show us Henry.
So, what I'm hearing is that someone needs to make a business on selling atomically accurate skeletons as Halloween decorations
Yes
Yes I would buy some
Yes please! I need some!
you can buy anatomically correct replicas, they just cost more
Imagine someone selling halloween octopus sceletons....and it's just a beak.
Like imagine someone visits you on halloween and sees the toy sckeletons: oh a cat...a bat...a dog...and a.... b e a k???
Finally someone is talking about the real issues. These annoy me to no end when I see them in stores.
They don't have bones.
The bird skeleton is honestly the worst one because I feel like chicken skeletons are the skeleton your average person is most exposed to of literally any animal, most people probably have more practical experience with chicken bones than they have with their own skeletons.
This comment gives me very disturbing thoughts. Thanks, I hate it
This. Anybody who has eaten a chicken wing, which is damn near everyone, should know how a.bird wing is constructed.
Agreed, so I feel like most people would understand that it was a bird skeleton if you did a relatively accurate bird skeleton. Ironically with the snake skeleton, that one's one of the easiest and most recognizable skeletons because it doesn't have any large features that get lost when skeletonized. If only they knew snakes had skeletons...
some people just don't think about stuff they do everyday
To be fair, looking at a pile of jigsaw pieces everyday won’t make it much easier to recognise the full picture
When the Lord cursed the Serpent in the Garden of Eden, He said, "You will walk on your belly and also gimme back those bones."
😂
I laughed way more than I should have 😂😂
🤣 OMG!
ITS A NO BONE ZONEEEE 😡
😂
Watch Lindsay Nikole if you haven’t already and/or don’t get my (her) incredible joke.
I'm no zoologist, but I have to say the skeleton decorations have always made me laugh. ESPECIALLY the ones that have the fleshy parts of the body, like dog ears, as part of the skull. The skeleton spider almost made me pee myself laughing.
I can do you one better: Skeleton scorpion. Thank me later.
With the snake, I can almost forgive them for making it that way, as it needs to be sturdy enough to withstand frequent handling. Thin, delicate ribs and skull bones would fall apart, although the skull still could have been more realistic. But the others are so bad they're hilarious!
Octopus skeletons 💀😭, why and how did they think it had one
Can you imagine what it would be like if spiders had skeletons that massive and rigid? How would they breathe ? or even move, nevermind stick to surfaces. It's almost fascinating
@@Eisenwulf666 spiders have exoskeletons which means their bones are larger and on the outside. What you mean is if spiders had instead smaller skeletons inside them instead of the big one outside
I work at a pet store, and when our former HEAD OF ANIMAL CARE said that snakes don't have skeletons, I had a similar reaction!
Good thing he’s the FORMER head of animal care
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦♀️
Got rid of his sons toys because they weren’t anatomically accurate. This is why we love you Clint😂
i wonder if he got him an anatomically correct replacement
No barbie and ken in this house goddammit
Why is that a good thing? Kids will be kids and can enjoy whatever they want
"Dad, where is my spider skeleton decoration?"
"I threw it away."
"Why?"
"Because it was inaccurate."
He could have cut the extra fingers
I was hoping the horrifying octopus "skeleton" I saw today would be in this, or the butterfly. The octopus's head was a ribcage (internal screaming) and the butterfly had a ribcage, two boned feet and the wings were all boned. Truly horrifying.
Though I agree, I have actually seen those and bought both. I love collecting skeleton Halloween animals, I just sort of see them as in their own existence of "Halloween skeleton monsters"
Right there with you. The tentacles made of vertebra personally offend me.
@@overlorddante I've never seen an octopus skeleton. These descriptions mortify me.
If you mean the mantle of the octopus, a rib cage is more correct since that's basically their torso. still terrible though
A butterfly with bones in its wings is oddly terrifying
It's interesting how much "reverse shrinkwrapping" is going on. A lot of these are basically fitting bones to integument and soft tissue.
I don't know what was more delightful: your bubbling laughter at that ridiculous cat, or the clearly suppressed rage you had for the bird skeleton :-)
Seeing clint absolutely die from laughter gives me so much joy. In the place where snakes don't have bones, cats are apparently mice.
You are what you eat, am I right??
And at the place where snakes *do* have bones, they're apparently part dog!
Ikr?
It is a strange time when snakes don't have skeletons but spiders do 🤔🐍🕷
The octopus also has a skeleton apparently 🐙 rather surprised Clint didn't show that one.
@@overlorddante Okay the spider kind of makes sense. Customer : We need a spider skeleton. Skeleton designer: But spiders don't have skeletons. Customer: I know but spiders are Halloweenie and skeletons are Halloweenie can't you come up with something? Skeleton designer: Alright I'll see what I can do.
But a octopus skeleton, why bother?
@@victorb145 ikr? Spiders at least have some form of skeleton while the humble octopus is famously boneless.
@@overlorddante **sets a plastic beak on the shelf** there we go, octopus skeleton
@@simpletoastvibes hm, not as good a decoration I suppose lol
This is awesome! My family is constantly getting on to me for "ruining Halloween decorations" because I get upset about inaccuracies. Glad there is SOMEONE out there who understands me.
Why does your family care so much about you "ruining" Halloween decorations? Is it like Christmas for them?!
I have a spider skelleton from Walmart named Steve.
He has four eyes, short stubby fangs, no pedipalps, and his legs are attached to his butt rib cage. But my favorite part about him is that he's got two weird bone things on the side of his head that sorta look like a second pair of fangs, but like, horiztonal.
He's so ridiculous looking I love him.
That one guy: "Snakes Don't Have Skeletons!"
Clint: "So you have chosen death...."
I wonder if that guy in the store though that snakes were some kind of worms. Otherwise I don't have any explanation why would he think that they don't have a skeleton.
I guess not everyone understands animals, but it's always either frustrating or hilarious when I hear stuff like that. I still remember when I was 5 years old trying to argue with my kindergarten teacher who was claiming that lions are the ones with stripes and tigers were the ones with manes. It's pretty weird given that there are lions on our national coat of arms.
They probably had a a spiderone
Lol, that's exactly how I feel when people say "fish don't have bones"
@@rat_dragon not *all* do
@@Andrey.Ivanov That doesn't seem right. Any adult should know the difference between a lion and a tiger. Maybe the teacher thought they'd have some fun by messing with a kid?
Yeah, I also wonder how he got to the conclusion that snakes don't have skeletons. Could be that he thought they were giant worms, or maybe he heard somewhere that sharks don't have skeletons, and extrapolated that only animals with legs have skeletons?
The non-skeletal cat looks like what someone who'd never seen a cat and only knew what it looked like from a vague description might make. Like in older than old animal biology books.
So, like a medieval cat painting?
It looks like a rat and a cat had a baby with the proportions of a foal.
The more I look at it from the side, the more I am convinced it's supposed to be a monkey, albeit a very ugly one.
It has rodent teeth!
It's like Bart SImpson's skeleton portrayed with boney spikes on his head.
One of my biggest issues is that almost all “animal skeletons” have EAR BONES
People: "snakes don't have skeletons"
Anyone with a brain: *"sorry, I don't speak wrong"*
adding "sorry, I'm not fluent in wrong" to my list of sassy retorts, thank you XD
At first, I chuckled at the derpy cat. Then Clint started laughing uncontrollably, that's when I totally lost it 😂
LOL! Same thing happened with my husband and I. So funny! Clint's so cool.
Yes, me too 😂
Omg the laughter was contagious. 🤣🤣☠️
Same :D
I'm impressed the snake skeleton you found was even that accurate. The only spoopy snake skeletons I've seen look like someone slapped a fanged tyrannosaurus skull on the end of an oversized string of tailbones.
I just assumed the reason the "bat" had some human skeleton elements was because it was meant to be dracula in bat form.
Oh gross, never considered that a vampire's bat form would be some horrible human-bat chimera, but it adds to the "wrongness" vampires embody.
Oh my goodness, just watched this video. Clint..your laughter over that goofy cat is so infectious! Thanks for all you do.
Isn’t it obvious? 💀 The inaccurate skeletons are a result necromancers putting bones together to make their skeleton army more recognizable to the average mortal. They didn’t anticipate to have an expert biologist call them out for their treachery!
Stealing this for a necromancer PC.
@@Stothehighest me too
@@Starrlet same
"... you made a spider out of rabbit bones..."
And now a new serial killer calling card has been invented... Good one Clint...
spiderbone rabbit is a good name for a band!
I want to have my next D&D necromancer make their familiars like that, now.
@@ettinakitten5047 this guy is going places
Well sometimes when you’re bringing back skeletons as soldiers you tend to end up with lots of little spare bones, so I thought “why the hell not?” And made myself a little skelly spider, his name is Fred.
I have always taken Halloween figures and created a story that they are spirits mimicking what they believe to be the animal shapes, but not necessarily accurately so, to give those who view them that much more of a creepy vibe.
Yeah, I chuckle at the inaccuracies too
The really dump ghost: spider skeleton
I love how Clint begins to compose himself but then glances at the cat and looses it all over again (and again) 🤣
I’m seeing the start of a whole new business enterprise: Clint’s Anatomically-Correct Halloween Skeletons.
I would buy those in a heartbeat!
The birds would scare no one. The cats and dogs would be great but guests would be uncertain of what they're looking at, and the Octopus skeletons everyone keeps mentioning in the other comments would literally just be the beak.
My Halloween party would bore everyone to tears, but I would have SO MUCH FUN talking about the animals!
... Oh!
Snake skeletons. SO MANY SNAKE SKELETONS!
Everyone will unlearn this silly misunderstanding into oblivion.
@@juliomartinez3429 Why not make a zombie octopus? That might be spoopy. And hey, I think replica posable animal skeletons could actually be big money.
the tarantula skeleton would just be a bag of air
I have owned and raised horses for my entire life and something we say in the horse industry is you never stop learning and today I learned something new. I did not know that the word for how a horse walks is called digitigrade. Thanks Clint!!! Als I found you from Snake Discovery your super cool.
its so cute how he’s so passionate about this stuff and you can tell how excited he is
I think the failure of a bird skeleton is really telling how much processed food we eat.
Yeah, I was thinking most people have probably SEEN wings at the grocery store/market/etc even if they hadn't eaten them.
Yeah... I eat chicken wings all the time (is my favourite piece at family BBQs) and one glance at it shows me how wrong that skeleton was. If anything, learning how to take the biggest amount of meat of the bones while eating chicken wings gave me a good idea of the anatomy of it.
*Chicken fingers*
@@atobe1844 Fish fingers.
@@atobe1844chicken fingers
"...this face!" Clint dying every time he shows THAT cat has made my day!
Also, that cat looks like it was run over.
Omg that cat face is awful lol 😂
It looks like it's really a rodent.
Then they backed up and ran it over again, just for good measure
Binx from Hocus Pocus before he comes back to life after getting smushed by the sewer cover and bus...
It's even worse when taxidermy looks that way.
So bats are just doing jazz hands, pteranodons are doing "fancy pinky" and birds are T-posing
I'm not even a zoologist and three seconds into this I can't stop laughing at the spider skeleton XD
An anatomically correct Gaboon skeleton decoration would be creepy. But a Gaboon itself would be absolutely terrifying.
"Tired of pesky kids taking too much candy from the bowl you set out? Try our real Gaboon viper Halloween decor to make sure they don't take any at all!"
I actually started crying the instant he revealed the ‘cat’s face. Nothing could have prepared me for that.
Also, that Pirates of the Caribbean reference at the end =*-*=
I know! That one got me! Lol. Jack the Monkey.
Nothing? Not even the thumbnail? Ok 😁
I laughed so hard my face hurts.
I hope Clint does another one of these this year!! There are still abominations that need brought to justice!
That cat with the fake fur was WAY more terrifying than cats in real life.... it was... scary beyond measure. If I saw that, I would be terrified
"Sir, I finished that scared cat Halloween decoration ya asked for!"
"Did you include everything on the list?"
"Yes, sir! Arched back, floofed up tail, flat feet, big buck teeth, derpy eyes...."
I regularly buy those and call them "my bored necromancer" collection.
I mean what is a necromancer supposed to do with thier big pile of un-used bones not magically fuse the bones into un natural animal forms.
I have that exact "bird" skeleton and a spider "skeleton" as Halloween decorations and I got them because they are so incredibly wrong that it's hilarious.
I laugh every time i see them. they're so bad that it's good.
I just always picture those as bone golems made from some bone loving wizard/warlock. They work great for D&D monsters lol
The fact that someone actually thinks snakes have no skeletons is the scariest part
You just have to consider how dumb the average person is and then realise that half will be more dumb than that.
Really it shows just how badly educated some people are.
Aw man I freakin LOVE these anatomically incorrect skeleton decorations, to me the incorrect nature makes it even MORE spooky >< they're so silly
I think the most horrendous one I've ever seen was an octopus skeleton. It had a full skull sort of like a squished-in human skull with no nasal cavity and vertebrae as tentacles. Effervescent.
I was surprised he hadn't found one of those they're fabulously bad!
Birds with bat wings are definitely scarier than the regular kind.
I work at Spirit and the octopus skeleton makes me so happy because it’s so stupid but I have a collection of the worst skeletons we have
I saw an image of a pumpkin skeleton on sale. I don't think I will be able to find anything to top that, except maybe seeing those in person, which I would then definetly buy.
@@Ditidos PUMPKIN SKELETON????????
I love that the inaccuracy of the first one is that it even exists in the first place XD
The employee telling you snakes don't have skeletons is comedy gold. It would be misinformation regardless of who the customer was, but the fact that he unknowingly said this to a literal expert is just too much. What a funny story to be able to tell!
I like to think these were made by a drunk necromancer
"they dont make snake skeletons because snakes dont HAVE skeletons"
... and octopi do.
There are moments in Clint's Reptile video that I'll chuckle or give a pretty good laugh, but this is definitely the first time I belly laughed so loudly I scared both my dogs. When I saw the look on that second cat's face I LOST IT.
I ended up learning a lot in this video though.
Imagine doing a worse job making a fake animal skeleton then the guy who gave the tarantula a ribcage.
Like you somehow managed to get less accurate then a skeleton that straight up doesn't exist.
This is the opposite of shrink wrapping in dinosaurs, warping the “skeleton” to fit what you know the animal looks like
“Why thank you Jack, not you, we call the Monkey Jack”
That’s it Clint, you’ve earned my patreon, not just because of how awesome you are but because damn I want to support the possibility of more references from great movies 😂
Thank you YT algorithm for this video. This guy is adorable. His enthusiasm and excitement are amazing! 👌✨
Welcome to the Clints Club 😁
He really is delightful! 20 years ago he would have had a show on a public access channel but now we get to see him aynwhere.
Well hi there!
Absolutely!! I love it here
He kinda reminds me of David Tennant in Dr.Who.
I feel like as a side hustle Clint should design scientifically accurate Halloween skeletons
Snakes not having skeletons goes back to the old idea that snakes are worms. It's the same thinking that used to classify bats as birds and whales as fish.
if you classify animals based on mode of locomotion it's still kinda correct
I teach a wildlife ecology class at a camp where schools in my area often go on field trips and I never realized how many people, chaperones/adults included, don’t know that snakes have bones. It’s always fun explaining that to them when they shout out snakes when we ask about invertebrates.
All I can think of is maybe they're confusing snakes with worms.
Bruh I learned that snakes have bones in elementary school
I want to think that is wrong but then I remember what people are actually like.
Most people I talk to either think snakes are just a head with a really long stomach or a head attached to a really long tail...
I read your comment as snake don't have bones and I was confused as through out my life I heard they have backbone. Quick search they are of phylum chordates.
"Snakes don't have skeletons." Seriously? Okay, even for the sake of argument. Even IF snakes didn't have skeletons, that has never stopped manufacturers before! Octopuses, insects, spiders, stuff like that, you can find decorations of all of them. So why wouldn't there be a faux skeleton?
I mean, it is kind of a moot point, since apparently everyone but that guy knows snakes have bones, but still. This argument falls apart for so many reasons.
Anyway, this was a great video! I don't think I've seen anyone do another one like it, so I hope it gets a lot of traction.
Real confidence boost that I can draw a spider more accurately than your students ngl. Please do not tell me they're elementary students
I love when the rabbits have skeleton ears...like its cartridge
'Bats just have one big sinus cavity, like you do' this implies Clint doesn't have a sinus cavity. Is Clint secretly a dinosaur?
Clint is a highly advanced educational robot. That's why he's discussing skeletons. He's trying to find our weaknesses
The pterosaur wing thing is super important to their locomotion, because it let them walk on their hands and tuck their wing up. Which means that they could actually pull off some impressive activity on the ground. Which is probably why birds ended up monopolizing the smaller flying niches and pterosaurs ended up being giants that walked around on all fours eating large prey. They were able to have higher take off weights than birds.
Probably the reason they died out in the end
While birds surely provided a lot if competition for the small flyer niches it should also be noted that unlike them pterosaurs were able to fly soon after hatching. That means that they probably were quite independent from a young age and occupied small flyer niches for a part of their lives gradually shifting towards the gigantic dimension like Quetzalcoatlus. So that can also be an explanation why there were mostly big pterosaurs left in the end of the Cretaceous.
It's kinda like the adult T.rex being an apex predator and juvenile T.rex serving as a middle sized predator
@@Andrey.Ivanov yeah, but even assuming that, all of the pterosaurs that were small as adults were extinct, and the overall diversity of pterosaurs was still restricted to ones that grew to be large adults.
@@sampagano205 That is correct
@@birbdad1842 in a sense. Birds and pterosaurs coexisted with birds eventually out competing them in the niches for smaller size, so towards the end of their reign it was mostly only larger species still around. There are some birds that have reached impressive sizes that are now extinct, however non remotely as large as the largest pterosaurs, mainly because birds have a size limitation meeting extra muscle taking off with their hind legs while pterosaurs use the same muscles for flight pushing off the ground using their wings.
A friend knew that I like spiders, so they got me a skeleton spider as a gift. I had to contain myself. That spider was really weird.
I didn’t think you could even make a cat decoration that inaccurate.
I brought up this video, and got a *look* from my partner - "Zoologist reacts to Horrible Halloween Decorations" aka what it's like grocery shopping with any zoologist in October.
We learned something about avian muscular anatomy today, because of your comment on muscle attachment! Subsequently, we have some opinions on fantasy winged human musculature.
-It always bugs me when people don't give their dragons big, meaty flight muscles on their chest- :P
Been subscribed for about half a year now and there's never been a disappointing video. Keep being awesome Clint.
damn only 5 hours and your pinned
@@munchkinfrost3918 As an aspiring marine biologist, I feel truly honored by this.
I'd imagine they just make what seems to be the most recognizable shape of skeleton to a layman regardless of accuracy in order to sell them
I will say, I think a lot of the mistakes they did was for for some reason, the ears on the cat could help in distinguishing it from a dog skeleton, meanwhile I can imagine the spider skeleton being made for the sole reason of "It looks freaky"
Clint's neverending laughter at the cat just DELIVERED serotonin to me today
Finally, someone made such video. I'm both biologist and artist (also got into taxidermy lately) and seeing decorations like these always was a nightmare fuel for me. This vid was painful to watch but also hilarious, absent snake skeletons and cat face were noice. Thanks for your work Clint!
Your first part made me want one of those eccentric taxidermists to make a spider out of rabbit bones. Also, gotta love how some won't make snake skeleton ornaments, thinking snakes don't have bones, but have no problem putting bones in a spider of all things.
When i saw the cat i immediately noticed that the feet are weird, but i forgot the most obvious issue that skeletons don't have ears lmao.
I feel like if they put more work into making them more accurate they could’ve been more “scary”.
Everyday people don’t know the skeletal anatomy of several animals, and seeing something you’re not used to when it’s supposed to be recognizable can be unsettling, which is one of the reasons why skeletons can be scary to people, aside it representing death.
Honestly, I think some of those skeletons are pretty cool, at least from a purely artistic perspective. They're not accurate at all, yeah, but they're not anatomy models, they're Halloween decorations. The bird and spider in particular look like skeletal monsters trying to imitate animals, rather than skeletons of the animals themselves, which is a fun concept to me.
Yes, this exactly- I've always imagined these as the necromancer or animating force taking a collection of bones and shapes them into a mockery of living creatures. The 'worst' ones like the invertebrates and the chimeric frankencreatures are, IMO, the best ones.
@@rhuali-6006 i was thinking the same thing.
@@rhuali-6006 They'd probably make for some cool DnD encounters. Like the spider can trap PCs in its ribcage abdomen or something.
they're clearly not anatomically accurate but that's not the point. when someone makes a spider or octopus skeleton they don't want to create something sensible, but something interesting and fun.
the wrong skeletons of vertebrates are a bit less justifiable, though I do find artistic liberties like the bone ears quite endearing too.
The spider I get, but I don't understand why you'd make a monster bird skeleton. Turning non--endo-skeletal things into endo-skeletons feels like a form of art though.
I've been thinking these things for years! My friends and family are amused by me pointing out every inaccuracy in toys and decorations. Good job, Sir!
I totally support your new upcoming line of anatomically correct Halloween decorations! 😁
But is an inaccurate spider "skeleton" the perfect pet for you?!
Omgosh...
I read that and heard it in Clint's voice...
I may have binged one too many of Clint's videos.
I learned several things today:
Spiders have skeletons
Snakes do not
Bats have very very long legs
Birds have finger bones going down there ulna and no radius
Cats ears are made of bone
and they have rat teeth and jointed like an atat and walk on the sole of there feet
Sternum, keel? Thats not important
XD Quality biology there
One thing to keep in mind is that in the idea of these as a fun, fictitious thing, if some necromancer were to try and create a spider or other animal with their dead-flesh animating powers, it is easy to pretend that they would just assemble them out of something easy like rabbit bones, just for the purpose of making them roughly the shape. Obviously its all just for fun and I have long been amused by the skeletal spider that my neighbors had up that looks like it has a ribcage for an abdomen.
I love that I found this video because I am a Halloween fanatic but always found these skeletons to be ridiculous, the spider one had me talking out loud to myself in an aisle at target. I did end up getting the monkey one though so I’m glad I’m on the same page as you lol. I’m a vet tech and the cat and dog ones bother me as well.
i'm at the part with the ears right now and it reminds me of an urban legend:
apparently once you remove the head, tail and feet off a mammal, it becomes incredibly difficult to tell the what it is, which lead to stories of people selling dead cats (skinned and with their tails, heads and feet removed) claiming them to be rabbits instead.
Not sure it's an urban legend: here in France, rabbit are sold with their head as to recognize them from cat so...
Oh wow - shesays in horror...
The cat skeleton’s skull is way, way too large. I’m always surprised at how small actual skeletons really are!
Clint you're the man!!! You had me laughing out loud along with this one!
When i see those cat skeletons I try to imagine if cats actually had bone ears and hate that I really hate that.
I work at Spirit halloween and we have an OCTOPUS skeleton and I have had an actual conversation with a customer (grown man) who didn’t realize why that was so hilarious. We also have a shark skull. I also have a collection of all the terrible skeletons because they make me laugh
The snake skeleton at Spirit is really ridiculous(because it also has two heads) but I love it so much
It doesn't surprise me that the cat came from the same store where snakes dont have skeletons lol. It looks like a DIY taxidermy gone wrong!
"Some of my students draw the spider's legs coming from the abdomen"
Excuse me, what?
Or the fact that not all his students knew spiders have eight legs
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