Cow Birds, but also the many other custodian birds of bovine-adjacent animals, and also non-bovine (elephants, rhinos, etc) And segue to those same jobs, but under water, with cleaner fish. And so on, and so on.
@@DUKE_of_RAMBLEyes! Brown Headed Cowbirds are obligate brood parasites, they never take care of their young and never see them! So fascinating and also kind of sad
my friend loves spiders so i sent her a picture of sparkemuffin thinking that maybe she doesn't know about them yet but she literally replied with "he dances in a funny way" LMAO never underestimate a spider admirer
7:55 As far as I know, the viking traders selling narwhal tusks as unicorn horns was not the actual origin of the unicorn myth, unicorns were already a thing and thats why these traders sold the tusks saying they were unicorn horns and therefore posessed unique magical and/or medicinal properties.
Yeah, afaik the earliest known sources to describe unicorns locate them in India (knowledge of that region was severely limited in the ancient world, so all kinds of strange animals were assumed to live there). Rhinos might have been a possible inspiration (among many) - at least some later travelers such as Marco Polo described what were clearly rhinos and called them unicorns. Until the trade in narwhal horns started, the description, thickness and length of the horn in literature varied wildly, but once the narwhal horns got introduced as unicorn horns, they kind of took over the imagination.
I want to hear about crazy senses in the animal kingdom. Like infrared/UV vision in some animals, snakes have crazy tongues for sensing the surroundings, but give me more and wilder
Never heard of lek mating before, but there is a rather extensive wikipedia article on it, and it seems to occur in quite a few species of birds (especially grouses), some seals (and even some other mammals) and a few insect species. Cool stuff.
If youre doing a quiz game you should include a graphic of running point totals! Love the concept and show so far. Idea for an episode: wildest eaters, covering animals with extreme ecological niches in terms of their consumption (chemotrophs, things like the vampire ground finch)
25:25 I don’t know about any other mammals, but I know some species of birds like grouse and I think prairie chickens? use a lek system for mating. Basically all the males gather in one space and do their mating displays and that attracts females and then yeah it’s just group boinking. I got to watch the tail end of a sharp-tailed grouse lek with my ornithology class this past semester on a trip. It’s very interesting
Suggestions for the pod! World's wildest animal sounds Wildest evolutions Wildest mother's and father's (mother and fathers day episodes?) Wildest discoveries? (like discovering the purpose of an animal's features, like possibly the narwal detecting saline) Wildest history interesting stories like Maya brings up about the attacker and the narwal tusk. Emu war. Etc. So excited for this podcast!
You guys have such a good format. I learned so much watching, “The Most Extreme” on the animal planet channel. It’s such a good prompt for getting people interested in animals of all different kinds.
Could be an interesting episode to hear about the worlds most unknown. It would have more stuff like Narwhals where we have plenty of theories but not yet a fact of how something works. Then you guys could also give predictions on what will eventually be found out as the truth.
I think an episode on the stealthiest animals could be really cool! I’d love to hear about the odder things animals do to catch prey or avoid being eaten themselves
Apparently a place for fruit bat orgies. A lek can also be a place where male birds, like grouses or snipes, dance and/or fight with their competitors. On spring evenings, in open places. The females inspect the scene and decide who get to mate with them. Nature at its finest. 🎉❤
I think narwhals are so cool. There is a male narwhal that grew up with a pod of belugas in the St.Lawrence river and biologists are interested to see if he has integrated enough into the male beluga pod to see if he will mate with a female beluga to create a narluga! Also, elephant seals would be cool to talk about!
There's another species of bird that does this: the yellow-billed oxpecker. It lives in the subsaharan region, and they look for ticks on mammals to drink blood. When they don't find ticks they just peck down until the animal bleeds, and they also just let it happen.
I feellike a narwal oh my god…. Nerve pain skin pain, can know when storms coming due to disease that gets worse with the pressure changes …. And i medically need 10x the ammount of salt daily than a normal person…… what ?…? AND IM RLLY FLEXABLE AAAH whats happening
10:29 Not sure if I'm not getting your point cause I'm a bot. If higher salinity (more salty salty) = lower freezing point (less chance of getting trapped under ice sheets) not sure how thay corelates to their higher heartbeat? Still fascinating facts nonetheless! Hopefully one day we'll get to talk with em! (Who knows!)
I dont know what title necessarily you’d use for this creature bug theres this really cool sea slug called a nudibranch where the can actually photosynthesize to survive!
The bird that can fly the highest, the marine creature that can live in the deepest parts. I think it's the most interesting when the aspect about the animal is in relation to the things that surround us.
the guy who used the narwhal tusk was an inmate who was on trial for murder, and i think he may have had his sentence reduced bc he subdued the terrorist? actually insane narwhal story
For SEO purposes I'm sure there is some legs to an episode about the worlds most painful insects to be stung by. There is a pain index made by a crazy biologist/entomologist whom I love dearly
loving this! one of the best sprouts from the current landscape of immoral true crime, almost racist gossip, "i swear babe, they're not misogynistic" podcasts
"A lek is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals, known as lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners with which to mate." -wikipedia. they mostly show pictures of it in birds but google says its also common in mammals and insects!
for more examples of lekking mating systems check out capercaillies (scotland) and kākāpō (new zealand) - both fantastic and rather lorge birbs :') kākāpō are a great example for weird birds of nz (could be a whole segment honestly) as they are the heaviest parrots (i think), nocturnal, flightless (not because they dont have wings but because of the heaviness) and for some reason have developed a lekking mating behaviour which i dont think any other parrots have (so the exact opposite of a pair bonded pair of parrots haha)
I don’t know if you are asking this becuase you saw this video but there is a youtuber named “Good enough” who did a video on this. It is called “The deadliest man eaters to ever exist” you should check it out!! He is similar to another popular youtuber “Sam O’nella”, just with different topics!!
world's oddest worker/predator/prey/herbivore/scavenger: you could do this with just general "work" or you could get specific for various purposes, but I'd like to know what animals do their tasks in odd ways. Like if you took scavengers or decomposers, who does their job in the most odd, dumb or interesting way? What predator has the most unique way of hunting or doing population control? Who's pollenating in a unique way? I wanna know the weirdos who still get their job done
Wild stories about those Narwals 😂 The theories about functionality of the tooth made me think of Longhorn bees, who also resemble unicorns. In genus Eucera, the males have way longer horns than the females. Their horns are filled with sensors, at least for temperature and smell, so they can 'sniff' flowers and females from a distance. Now I'm wondering if the length of the horn might also be a secondary sexual selection criterium. I guess not. I suspect that female bees don't get to do the selecting. Not sure if the males always wait for consent. Keep those refreshingly weird stories coming please! ❤❤
Huh. Really? In most bee species I've heard of, males are tiny and useless because they exist only to breed the queen once, if at all. And then all the females are the workers and the queen's daughters, almost all of whom will never reproduce. This feels like a totally different social structure
About tusks moving that far.. your own teeth wiggle a bit.. try it. Now imagine your teeth were 1000 times the size.. 1000x the wiggle haha. About males sword fighting tusks, isn't it just sizing up and the biggest one wins? Makes sense, so they don't have to fight. Probably if they are not sure they will fight =)
Oddest couples - weird pairing of different species that work together
Cow Birds, but also the many other custodian birds of bovine-adjacent animals, and also non-bovine (elephants, rhinos, etc)
And segue to those same jobs, but under water, with cleaner fish.
And so on, and so on.
@@DUKE_of_RAMBLEyes! Brown Headed Cowbirds are obligate brood parasites, they never take care of their young and never see them! So fascinating and also kind of sad
Worlds dumbest animal: an animal that is so poorly fit for its environment, that it is a shock that it's still around. Like the sea horse
Listen I love Stompy as much as the next guy but I think we get enough of him as it is
@@itachitsukuyomidcuo9853stomps catching strays 😂
@@xXxeuthanasiaxXx 😂
Pandas have entered the chat
Bit rude
Petition to make this at least an hour and a half
Twice a week, both 45 minutes?
And here, I was going to suggest they do it once a month, or just twice a month, as to not burn through all their content/talking points. 😒😅
they have a patreon now
come for the narwhals stay for the fire extinguisher bludgeoning
I thought they were grinding, but it really was just a week since the previous video💀
i feel the same it went by fast
Grinding a video out* for the listeners who cannot see.
The beginning of the video they say this is the first episode they filmed, for members of the Patreon.
my friend loves spiders so i sent her a picture of sparkemuffin thinking that maybe she doesn't know about them yet but she literally replied with "he dances in a funny way" LMAO never underestimate a spider admirer
7:55 As far as I know, the viking traders selling narwhal tusks as unicorn horns was not the actual origin of the unicorn myth, unicorns were already a thing and thats why these traders sold the tusks saying they were unicorn horns and therefore posessed unique magical and/or medicinal properties.
Yeah, afaik the earliest known sources to describe unicorns locate them in India (knowledge of that region was severely limited in the ancient world, so all kinds of strange animals were assumed to live there). Rhinos might have been a possible inspiration (among many) - at least some later travelers such as Marco Polo described what were clearly rhinos and called them unicorns. Until the trade in narwhal horns started, the description, thickness and length of the horn in literature varied wildly, but once the narwhal horns got introduced as unicorn horns, they kind of took over the imagination.
“If you’re bad at rumble rumping, get out” new fav quote
You should do an episode on like most extreme, like which animals live in the most extreme conditions, and how they adapted to living like that
Tardigrade. Thanks, that's my TED talk.
Extremophiles is what they be called, which is apt! 😅
@@dyslexicwizrad5297🤘😫🤘 I suggested them last week, so I'm onboard with that!
😎🍻😎
Flamingos are crazy in that regard
39:52
Whoever did this! I love them! Stick-Connor needs to be a reoccurring character!
I want to hear about crazy senses in the animal kingdom. Like infrared/UV vision in some animals, snakes have crazy tongues for sensing the surroundings, but give me more and wilder
Narwhals have a tusk, elephants have tusks, rhinos have horns, cows have horns, yet somehow giraffes are real and unicorns arent
microbiologist here! peptostreptococcus anaerobius is in the peptostreptococcaceae family and is actually found normally on your skin!
Devil's Hole pupfish, barreleyes, waterfall-climbing gobies, hagfish are probably the craziest fishes out there
6:07
"Where's the second tooth?"
"IN THEIR MOUTH."
38:00 they paint over the spiders eyes
Never heard of lek mating before, but there is a rather extensive wikipedia article on it, and it seems to occur in quite a few species of birds (especially grouses), some seals (and even some other mammals) and a few insect species. Cool stuff.
If youre doing a quiz game you should include a graphic of running point totals! Love the concept and show so far. Idea for an episode: wildest eaters, covering animals with extreme ecological niches in terms of their consumption (chemotrophs, things like the vampire ground finch)
25:25 I don’t know about any other mammals, but I know some species of birds like grouse and I think prairie chickens? use a lek system for mating. Basically all the males gather in one space and do their mating displays and that attracts females and then yeah it’s just group boinking. I got to watch the tail end of a sharp-tailed grouse lek with my ornithology class this past semester on a trip. It’s very interesting
my new favorite podcast
15:37 I really really really appreciate that! I don't have to constantly look it up myself, it saves so much time. You guys are awesome!
Lekking is common in Upland Game Birds. Lesser Prairie Chickens and Sage Grouse lek every year. Many other upland birds as well!
episode suggestions:
- the stinkiest
- the silliest
- the slimiest
- the fuzziest
- the scruffiest
- the sleepiest
Suggestions for the pod!
World's wildest animal sounds
Wildest evolutions
Wildest mother's and father's (mother and fathers day episodes?)
Wildest discoveries? (like discovering the purpose of an animal's features, like possibly the narwal detecting saline)
Wildest history interesting stories like Maya brings up about the attacker and the narwal tusk. Emu war. Etc. So excited for this podcast!
3:09 I don't think you guys can make Worlds Smelliest Podcast, the Yard is literally 4 dudes that met playing SSBM
44:10 lol that "IDK" and giggle
You guys have such a good format. I learned so much watching, “The Most Extreme” on the animal planet channel. It’s such a good prompt for getting people interested in animals of all different kinds.
Could be an interesting episode to hear about the worlds most unknown. It would have more stuff like Narwhals where we have plenty of theories but not yet a fact of how something works. Then you guys could also give predictions on what will eventually be found out as the truth.
39:50 omg thats awesome, stick connor should be a regular 😂
god i would love for this podcast to be longer, it’s so good
I think an episode on the stealthiest animals could be really cool! I’d love to hear about the odder things animals do to catch prey or avoid being eaten themselves
Worth noting, the finch homes, Darwin and Wolf island, are part of the Galapagos (which is Ecuadorian)
I already know that this will be my favorite thing to look forward to each week
Just finished work, got this notification. Listening on my way to a massive Lek.
What's a Lek? 💛
Apparently a place for fruit bat orgies. A lek can also be a place where male birds, like grouses or snipes, dance and/or fight with their competitors. On spring evenings, in open places. The females inspect the scene and decide who get to mate with them. Nature at its finest. 🎉❤
To blind spiders for tests I think they paint over the eyes. Then when the spider molts it can see again. 38:56
Honestly my new favorite podcast
If you liked Sparklemuffin, check out Skeletorus, another peacock jumping spider but more art deco.
Loving the stuff. My only “critique” I think you should both answer the question(s). If you want to keep the buzzer give a bonus point.
connor being a professional and telling his experience in the beginning is crazy
Learned lots of things new but lek is the best- it just led me to learn about the kākāpo
i doubted how important the connor jumping over building edit was going to be..... turns out it was super important
I think narwhals are so cool. There is a male narwhal that grew up with a pod of belugas in the St.Lawrence river and biologists are interested to see if he has integrated enough into the male beluga pod to see if he will mate with a female beluga to create a narluga!
Also, elephant seals would be cool to talk about!
There's another species of bird that does this: the yellow-billed oxpecker. It lives in the subsaharan region, and they look for ticks on mammals to drink blood. When they don't find ticks they just peck down until the animal bleeds, and they also just let it happen.
I don't usually watch podcasts but, I really like the pacing that Maya and Connor have in this one 💜
these spiders have cute big eyes too, in the dancing sparklemuffin
I feellike a narwal oh my god…. Nerve pain skin pain, can know when storms coming due to disease that gets worse with the pressure changes …. And i medically need 10x the ammount of salt daily than a normal person…… what ?…? AND IM RLLY FLEXABLE AAAH whats happening
waiting for a shoebill stork ep 😔this podcast is so good y'all :)))))))
connor looks soo calm and collected here in contrast to on the alveus stream🤣
This is my new favourite podcast you're both amazing
I am starting to think that isn't a real tree or tree house...
10:29 Not sure if I'm not getting your point cause I'm a bot.
If higher salinity (more salty salty) = lower freezing point (less chance of getting trapped under ice sheets) not sure how thay corelates to their higher heartbeat?
Still fascinating facts nonetheless! Hopefully one day we'll get to talk with em! (Who knows!)
Omg yall are so underrated im glad i found this podcast
Wtf, narwhals are huge!
New favorite pod
I dont know what title necessarily you’d use for this creature bug theres this really cool sea slug called a nudibranch where the can actually photosynthesize to survive!
What I mean by title is maybe you could cover more of this sea slugs on the next episode perhaps:)
Y’all should have guests to discuss and quiz throughout too 🎉
Thanks for showing us hippobat
Im lreaning so much from this podcast, love it!!! This is my new fave! Keep up the good work, guys!!
Yall should do worlds cutest!
Not gonna lie this is my new favorite podcast very inspiring 😃
I have tons of Sparklemuffin's gifs of dances. Whenever I feel down, I go to that folder to see some sparklemuffin belly dance to light up.
The bird that can fly the highest, the marine creature that can live in the deepest parts. I think it's the most interesting when the aspect about the animal is in relation to the things that surround us.
Great video!
It’d be cool to see you guys collab with Tier Zoo
Was fun and interesting. Please do more! Quiz could be extended a bit like letting them both guess atleast
georgie should come on the podcast. I think he would have some incredible things to say
This podcast is so cool i wish animals where real
This is a great podcast (the best I’ve seen from a twitch streamer for sure 😂) I can see this doing really well.
Another amazing episode🎉 .. my rabbits did not like that honking 😂 the grump thumps
THE THUMBNAIL, look at that precious creature 🥺
If someone wanted to get into animal conservation do you have any advice as to what paths would be best?
I really like the descriptions for sizes of things. 3 acero's (3 horses) works for me, and then you also said the small schoolbus. Definitely helps
Awesome podcast.
Holy cow I’m learning so much from y’all! Keep it up!
This is what Darkhorse podcast should be. Thanks!
I love this podcast
the guy who used the narwhal tusk was an inmate who was on trial for murder, and i think he may have had his sentence reduced bc he subdued the terrorist? actually insane narwhal story
For SEO purposes I'm sure there is some legs to an episode about the worlds most painful insects to be stung by. There is a pain index made by a crazy biologist/entomologist whom I love dearly
amazing podcast, so hype
from what i have seen, they have two huge eyes, then the other eyes are on the sides of their heads, the huge eyes made them really cute
"Higher salinity means more freezy-freezy!" - Wise words
lol of course it was Maddie who discovered the Dancing Sparklemuffin!
loving this! one of the best sprouts from the current landscape of immoral true crime, almost racist gossip, "i swear babe, they're not misogynistic" podcasts
Alright... you hooked me in
Definitely do appreciate the conversion into metres and kg
Paused this to go listen to the Narwhals song, twice, and then came back.
"A lek is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals, known as lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners with which to mate." -wikipedia. they mostly show pictures of it in birds but google says its also common in mammals and insects!
for more examples of lekking mating systems check out capercaillies (scotland) and kākāpō (new zealand) - both fantastic and rather lorge birbs :') kākāpō are a great example for weird birds of nz (could be a whole segment honestly) as they are the heaviest parrots (i think), nocturnal, flightless (not because they dont have wings but because of the heaviness) and for some reason have developed a lekking mating behaviour which i dont think any other parrots have (so the exact opposite of a pair bonded pair of parrots haha)
worlds longest killstreak from an animal. i.e. how many people/predators it took down before being stopped
I mean, how are we defining animals here?
wasn’t it that tiger in India in like the 1800s. didn’t it kill like 200people
Bruce + Henry. Both crocodiles.
If you hadn't specified people/predators, I feel like it would be some random bowhead whale just doing its daily eating for 200 years.
I don’t know if you are asking this becuase you saw this video but there is a youtuber named “Good enough” who did a video on this. It is called “The deadliest man eaters to ever exist” you should check it out!! He is similar to another popular youtuber “Sam O’nella”, just with different topics!!
world's oddest worker/predator/prey/herbivore/scavenger: you could do this with just general "work" or you could get specific for various purposes, but I'd like to know what animals do their tasks in odd ways. Like if you took scavengers or decomposers, who does their job in the most odd, dumb or interesting way? What predator has the most unique way of hunting or doing population control? Who's pollenating in a unique way? I wanna know the weirdos who still get their job done
Ok this is the fastest 40min of my life PLEASE MAKE MORE
Maya's pants in the intro are fire
How does Conner get down from the 30 story building?
Lek is a word in swedish. it means ''play'' or to ''play around''. so hearing it used in the context of orgies is pretty funny
Narwales weigh almost 3 horses or one 2007 Mustang
This makes me so happy and educated 🗣️🗣️
Not the editor using Pivot for the spider vs human comparison 🤣
Wild stories about those Narwals 😂 The theories about functionality of the tooth made me think of Longhorn bees, who also resemble unicorns. In genus Eucera, the males have way longer horns than the females. Their horns are filled with sensors, at least for temperature and smell, so they can 'sniff' flowers and females from a distance.
Now I'm wondering if the length of the horn might also be a secondary sexual selection criterium. I guess not. I suspect that female bees don't get to do the selecting. Not sure if the males always wait for consent.
Keep those refreshingly weird stories coming please! ❤❤
Huh. Really? In most bee species I've heard of, males are tiny and useless because they exist only to breed the queen once, if at all. And then all the females are the workers and the queen's daughters, almost all of whom will never reproduce. This feels like a totally different social structure
heck yeah worlds wildest episode #2!!!!!
The water salinity is the other way around btw. The more salty the water, the colder it needs to be to freeze =)
About tusks moving that far.. your own teeth wiggle a bit.. try it. Now imagine your teeth were 1000 times the size.. 1000x the wiggle haha.
About males sword fighting tusks, isn't it just sizing up and the biggest one wins? Makes sense, so they don't have to fight. Probably if they are not sure they will fight =)