I love how awkward and natural this interview feels. They don't sound prerecorded and animated like a lot of other talk shows. It sounds like you are sitting in the room with them having a normal conversation. It's actually much more engaging and comfortable feeling, if only a bit awkward and dorky LOL Also, I always get excited with Jessi shows up. She's so sweet and knowledgeable about everything. She reminds me of a cross between an elementary school teacher and a storyteller but with awesome animals!
***** I mean.. I'm not a reptile expert so take my advice with a grain of salt, but they were fairly simple to take care of. One difficulty we encountered was dry scales.. You need to keep a close eye on humidity to prevent dry scales/difficulty shedding. They don't like to be handled too much though.. so if you're looking for something to play with and hold, I'd really suggest not getting one of these.
I love your animal segments ,the legless lizard description was spot on coming from a a professional alligator wrestler rattlesnake milker from the old days ..thanks guys keep up the good work!
That's exactly what's happening. Both the muscles and ligaments shorten when someone wears high heels, and it can get to a point where it's more painful to walk flat-footed than it is to walk in heels.
Jessi is awesome! Her knowledge base is impressive and the way she explains things is great. You guys should try to establish another spin-off show through Animal Wonders with her as the host!
The legless lizard and it's predators have a good compromise: the lizard gets to live while the predator still gets to eat that meaty tail that makes up more than half it's body.
+Locarith Geckos do exactly that, but in their tails. They don't store fat in their actual bodies, but all in their tails. That's why it's normal to see a gecko with a superbly fat tail.
+bakon321 I once ran into a rattlesnake when I was really little. I heard its rattle and stopped. Turning my eyes met his, and I cocked my head. He was in a triangular cone curl, and he perched his head as well. His rattle stopped and I wondered if he would bite me. We stood in silence for a while, neither of us felt threatened by each other to some extent it seemed. Time passed and he gave a slight hiss, a singular shake of the rattle, and I knew my time was up. I nodded, turned my back calmly, and walked off through the tall grass home. Later that week ran into a spider that lunged at me, and later that month a wasp that attacked me on sight. I now have a serious phobia of wasps and an extreme hate for spiders, but my love of snakes has never faltered. Looking back on it, I wonder if the snake had bit me and the spider had left me alone, would the circumstances of my hatred and love of either species be different. I have run into many snakes since then, and I only know that they will never bite me, and if they do I must obviously be at fault.
+Conner Fuchs I had a garter snake for a pet, for a time. He loved fish, and enjoyed hanging out with me on my bed. I had to give him up because I moved to a place where no snakes were allowed. The milk snakes I encountered were peaceful, and careful handling would not result in any problems. I only faced a copperhead one time. When I saw him move, I stopped and just stood there. Eventually he went swimming off across the water. I have heard that most bites happen because someone decided to mess with the snake, or because someone put their hand, or other body part, in a confined space not knowing there was a snake there. Although there are aggressive snakes, which should be given a wide berth, most wild snakes just want to be left alone. A friend of mine brought me a black racer once, thinking to give me a pet. After looking up some info on it, I told him, these snakes do not make good pets, they are too nervous and high strung. I had the snake in my hands at the time, and he was not happy. As I was taking the snake out to let it go, he tried to bite me. My roommate was horrified by that, so I had to reassure him that the snake was not poisonous and I was unharmed. I let it go in the woodpile in my back yard. If you don't know what you are facing, leave it alone, or if it poses a danger, call a professional to relocate the animal, but don't just kill them indiscriminately.
Weird... Since I started standing at my desk, I've found my posture has improved for two reasons: 1) I pretty much never sit down now, so there's no opportunity 2) When you're standing around all day, slouching starts to really hurt, rather quickly! :P
slouching doesn't feel good for me. having good posture is more skeletal than muscular. when someone practices yoga, you elongate, twist, or move the spine and practice different poses that engage the muscles to support the skeleton in natural positions. a slouched spine is not natural... the natural position is in the s-curve you see commonly in chiropractors offices... anyway... it feels good for me to have good posture and it doesn't feel like effort at all. it feels like my bones are stacked in the most comfortable position and my muscles effortlessly stabilize me there.
For me a slouched spine is more natural because my spine lacks the natural s curve, it's almost completely flat and more common than people would think especially if you were a particularly bendy child or have one of many connective tissue diseases
Bannicus Months. It could take a few years to feel completely relaxed while upright, but after a few months you will stop noticing the 'stress' when sitting upright.
Liarra Sniffles I was thinking about your (first) comment at the snake part and realized, that if i make my posture better then I can sleep without putting my head on my desk at school easier (which i can already do and have done before but I slouch a lot when I do/have). Thank you.
"Proper" posture puts more pressure on the tail bone. I don't like pain and think it's silly to accuse me of laziness for refusing to endanger my health. Damaged tail bones hurt beyond belief.
It's more than just the leg thing that qualifies a species to be a part of the snake family, its more of the overall physiological aspects that comprises an organism to be placed in a certain taxonomy..
They may look like snakes, but as you have seen they do have external ears, movable eyelids, and most of all the caudal autotomy - a defense mechanism of losing their tails.. Put it altogether, and these would never fit in the: Subordrer : Serpentes, in which snakes do belong..
Another instance is in the case of the mole lizard, it has legs, but only two front legs.. It does resemble more of a snake than a lizard.. But since it has legs, even only has two of it, it is still classified as a lizard, in the suborder Amphisbaenia, but falls under its own family; Bipepidae.. Even though, the Amphisbaenia suborder included only the legless lizards in the past years..
Not sure what you mean. There is actually some pretty well defined lines that separate families of animals. Perhaps some categorizations seem to be unexpected or strange, but this is because of how well defined the lines actually are..
Hanging upside down can help a bad back feel better. Use an inversion table or dangle by your knees from a swingset. Everything in the column will get a much needed break. No pressure on the disks etc.
At the risk of being picky, the ligaments of the spinal cord aren't the weight bearing ones. If you google search for an image of the posterior longitudinal ligament, the interspinous ligament, the superspinous ligament or the ligamentum flavum, you'll see a picture of the ligaments that "prevent" slouching.
So many people that love scishow, my friends and have had discussions about your videos. lol this came out around half an hour ago and a nice amount of views and comments.
I started really sitting straight some three years ago (walking also) and my life is SO MUCH BETTER. Nothing hurts anymore, neck, back, small of the back, friggin legs etc. It's just better in every aspect, takes a long time, but it is worth it. :)
Two things have helped my posture, partner dancing and surfing. I first noticed my posture being more straight three years ago when I was dancing at least 3 times a week. My explanation for dancing as helping my posture is that during partner dancing, the back is crucial in keeping balance and support for your partner. Surfing has helped me bulk up around the chest, and shoulders, tighten my abdomen and strengthened my back. When you paddle, you must arch your back like a cobra for better >>>>>>
Just incase anyone wanted to know, you should look and find how your pelvic tilts and do the correct exercises to fix the problem, it can fix your tilt in as little as a month or two
One thing people don't often understand is that "sitting up straight" is not actually as straight as you might think - the spine naturally falls in an S shape and you really shouldn't fight that. One good way I learned to sit up straight in a healthy way is to think of rolling your hips forward rather than pulling your shoulders/neck up.
Yes! Whiplash, disc herniations and damage, facet joint subluxations and rib head subluxations are all things having a high global flexibility doesn't reduce the risk of. (Most of the things I've mentioned turn out to be part of whiplash too, so you're super on the ball.)
The human species temperature tolerance interval is between around -40ºC (-104F) and 50ºC (122F). However some other variations have to be taken into account in determining exactly how much any given person can withstand.
A good way to speed up the process of improving your posture is to exercise the muscles of your back. It won't shorten the ligaments, but it'll make it easier for you to hold better posture using your muscles.
You can slouch when standing up as well. Not only is it the back that curves, but the shoulders move forward as well. Try to keep your shoulders pushed back to make yourself stand up straight.
yeah my sister teaches dance and she always talks about how important phrasing is when trying to improve poster. Just saying "sit up straight" is not enough.
It has to do with the angular size in your field of vision. If you imagine something really close to your eye, imagine your vision of that thing as a very wide cone extending from your retina to encompass it. As it gets further away, the cone you're imagining becomes more and more acute - and as it takes up less and less of your field of vision, fewer photons from the object actually hit your retina, which is why it's also harder to see.
You have a good point. Fish do have a flexible back. I mean when they are flopping out of the water their back turns in un-believable ways. if you think about it: most animals are in a 'ball' position when they are in the stomach, egg, or any sort of way, but no animals walk like us. So their back doesnt nearly have to go threw as much as ours does. Their bak is ready to go threw what it does. For the first months of life we slouch. Then we crawl (like most animals), then we walk. Its confusing
We have slow worms in our garden which are also a type of legless lizard. We have to be very careful doing the gardening so we don't accidentally injure them.
I love how awkward and natural this interview feels. They don't sound prerecorded and animated like a lot of other talk shows. It sounds like you are sitting in the room with them having a normal conversation. It's actually much more engaging and comfortable feeling, if only a bit awkward and dorky LOL Also, I always get excited with Jessi shows up. She's so sweet and knowledgeable about everything. She reminds me of a cross between an elementary school teacher and a storyteller but with awesome animals!
they don't sound recorded at all. Appears any time we can hear them is a happy accident!
Jessi is like a real life Miss Frizzle
We currently have two legless lizards at my college named Legolas and NAS (acronym for not-a-snake)!
***** I mean.. I'm not a reptile expert so take my advice with a grain of salt, but they were fairly simple to take care of. One difficulty we encountered was dry scales.. You need to keep a close eye on humidity to prevent dry scales/difficulty shedding. They don't like to be handled too much though.. so if you're looking for something to play with and hold, I'd really suggest not getting one of these.
Alexandra That's so awesome that one's name is Nas... And it's not because it's an acronym...
"Only a face a mother could love"
He's adorable though ;-;
I want him
*w h a t a r e y a a f u c k i n g m o t h e r*
I want him too
I really love how Awe-struck Hank always gets with the animals. Its so sweet.
Nobody else wanted to see it move on the table? I was interested to see if it moves like a snake or had a completely different technique..
it moves like a snake.
+Pok Wang It crawls like an inchworm.
Sometimes they do this thing where they roll really fast. I think they move like a snake generally.
I love your animal segments ,the legless lizard description was spot on coming from a a professional alligator wrestler rattlesnake milker from the old days ..thanks guys keep up the good work!
i feel like this is one of the most important vids of sci show history
most personally relevant and interesting episode of schoshow talk show EVER. thank you for your great work!
That's exactly what's happening. Both the muscles and ligaments shorten when someone wears high heels, and it can get to a point where it's more painful to walk flat-footed than it is to walk in heels.
You can tell Michael and Hank are best friends or something
I'm pretty sure they are dating ...
+khalid zaman then I hope Hank's wife is okay with that XD
I like it because it looks like a baby basilisk
I love Jessi! She's definitely my favorite part of the Talk Show every week
10:55 random skin lying about appears
+Austin Pinheiro ikr
Austin Pinheiro
m a g i c
yeah wtf just ...wtf LOL
Lol yea my lizards i used to have would shed pretty quick, but was funny they didnt even address it
Same thought... How... So fast? Video Footage? I mean... C'mon! That musta been interesting!
i loved the mili second when Hank flinched a bit and tried to recover with a thank you. lol i love him
why did the cameras cut to random skinshed lying on the table lol?
Probably because they talked about the skins for awhile but then decided to cut that part out of the video for whatever reason
Such a fascinating insight INTO his body.
Teehee
I was looking thru the comments and I saw this when he said it.
I like how the legless lizard just whacked her microphone. "No! Don't listen!"
Jessi is awesome! Her knowledge base is impressive and the way she explains things is great. You guys should try to establish another spin-off show through Animal Wonders with her as the host!
The legless lizard and it's predators have a good compromise: the lizard gets to live while the predator still gets to eat that meaty tail that makes up more than half it's body.
+Locarith Geckos do exactly that, but in their tails. They don't store fat in their actual bodies, but all in their tails. That's why it's normal to see a gecko with a superbly fat tail.
+Locarith
Yes.
+Locarith Yup! That's why you gotta be gentle with them and not stress them out too much or they'll drop their tails.
I love how you could tell the zookeeper was very animated and really into her work and the animal.
You could see the tension increase when Alex got mentioned.
Yes! I love seeing a new scishow video come out!
snakes have never creeped me out. this, on the other hand, was horrible..
+bakon321 I once ran into a rattlesnake when I was really little. I heard its rattle and stopped. Turning my eyes met his, and I cocked my head. He was in a triangular cone curl, and he perched his head as well. His rattle stopped and I wondered if he would bite me. We stood in silence for a while, neither of us felt threatened by each other to some extent it seemed. Time passed and he gave a slight hiss, a singular shake of the rattle, and I knew my time was up. I nodded, turned my back calmly, and walked off through the tall grass home.
Later that week ran into a spider that lunged at me, and later that month a wasp that attacked me on sight. I now have a serious phobia of wasps and an extreme hate for spiders, but my love of snakes has never faltered. Looking back on it, I wonder if the snake had bit me and the spider had left me alone, would the circumstances of my hatred and love of either species be different. I have run into many snakes since then, and I only know that they will never bite me, and if they do I must obviously be at fault.
+Conner Fuchs I had a garter snake for a pet, for a time. He loved fish, and enjoyed hanging out with me on my bed. I had to give him up because I moved to a place where no snakes were allowed. The milk snakes I encountered were peaceful, and careful handling would not result in any problems. I only faced a copperhead one time. When I saw him move, I stopped and just stood there. Eventually he went swimming off across the water. I have heard that most bites happen because someone decided to mess with the snake, or because someone put their hand, or other body part, in a confined space not knowing there was a snake there. Although there are aggressive snakes, which should be given a wide berth, most wild snakes just want to be left alone. A friend of mine brought me a black racer once, thinking to give me a pet. After looking up some info on it, I told him, these snakes do not make good pets, they are too nervous and high strung. I had the snake in my hands at the time, and he was not happy. As I was taking the snake out to let it go, he tried to bite me. My roommate was horrified by that, so I had to reassure him that the snake was not poisonous and I was unharmed. I let it go in the woodpile in my back yard. If you don't know what you are facing, leave it alone, or if it poses a danger, call a professional to relocate the animal, but don't just kill them indiscriminately.
+Conner Fuchs wow that was beautiful... I've always had a love for snakes but your words are... enjoyable to read.
Your weird
Weird... Since I started standing at my desk, I've found my posture has improved for two reasons:
1) I pretty much never sit down now, so there's no opportunity
2) When you're standing around all day, slouching starts to really hurt, rather quickly!
:P
Did the lizard just shed all over their table at the end. Lol
i get so excited to watch these whenever they're uploaded
That's it, I'm moving to Montana.
gonna be a dental floss tycoon
"Thank you for that fascinating bit of insight INTO my body." So many good comments!
She's really good at handling that lizard...
Oh man I've always wanted to see more on legless lizards! I'm so glad that was the animal this go around!
does anybody else think the lizard looks kinda like the basilisk from harry potter
skitzoid black We had one at my college named Salazar 😁
sci show talk show and great minds are the best series on this channel
I can't slouch, because I have two metal rods drilled to my spine!
Is it painful ?
These talk shows are getting much better. Keep it up!
Look the lizard shed his skin :D 10:52
OMG my video stopped to buffer when Hank said, "God dang it!" (3:00) and I thought they silenced it because he cursed! XD
I used to have awesome posture until my body started crapping out on me T.T One more person tells me about my posture, I'll scream.
+Munashiimaru I would like to tell you that you should work on your posture.
+Conner Fuchs More savage than cabbage.
you have bad posture (listens)
That's one of my favourite things about this show.
Can that particular type of lizard grow back its tail after it detaches?
Yes they can.
She seemed so passionate about the lizard :)
The ligament shortening, is that basically what happens to women's legs when they (we) wear high heels all day every day?
My God! This is soo good. I freaking love the part when they bring a new spice, really enjoyable. :)
slouching doesn't feel good for me. having good posture is more skeletal than muscular. when someone practices yoga, you elongate, twist, or move the spine and practice different poses that engage the muscles to support the skeleton in natural positions. a slouched spine is not natural... the natural position is in the s-curve you see commonly in chiropractors offices... anyway... it feels good for me to have good posture and it doesn't feel like effort at all. it feels like my bones are stacked in the most comfortable position and my muscles effortlessly stabilize me there.
For me a slouched spine is more natural because my spine lacks the natural s curve, it's almost completely flat and more common than people would think especially if you were a particularly bendy child or have one of many connective tissue diseases
"I can hear it in my ears." -Hank 2013 well done hank.
How long does it take for your posture to improve? Are we talking months or years?
Bannicus Months. It could take a few years to feel completely relaxed while upright, but after a few months you will stop noticing the 'stress' when sitting upright.
Liarra Sniffles Thanks. It's strange that you replied to this now because I returned to this video today by accident.
Bannicus Clearly fate wants you to have nice posture!
Liarra Sniffles I was thinking about your (first) comment at the snake part and realized, that if i make my posture better then I can sleep without putting my head on my desk at school easier (which i can already do and have done before but I slouch a lot when I do/have). Thank you.
Hank and limited edition angsty emotional Hank in one room: mind=blown
"Proper" posture puts more pressure on the tail bone. I don't like pain and think it's silly to accuse me of laziness for refusing to endanger my health. Damaged tail bones hurt beyond belief.
That last bit, sO TRUE
I thought it was weird that they were bringing up Alex, then I realised how old this video is.
awww...she talks to them like she's doing show-and-tell at an elementary school lol
Lol that's what her entire channel is like, and she presents sci show kids it's pretty much ingrained into her at this point to present that way 😂
That last part made me feel like I was watching an episode of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
This woman is Gorgeous!!
Lol Hank and Michael are so amusing XD and the legless lizard has such a sweet face!
i need to stop slouching...
If it's not a snake, then where are its legs? Check and mate, taxonomists!
Same place a whale's legs are...
Snakes have no eyelids
It's more than just the leg thing that qualifies a species to be a part of the snake family, its more of the overall physiological aspects that comprises an organism to be placed in a certain taxonomy..
They may look like snakes, but as you have seen they do have external ears, movable eyelids, and most of all the caudal autotomy - a defense mechanism of losing their tails.. Put it altogether, and these would never fit in the: Subordrer : Serpentes, in which snakes do belong..
Another instance is in the case of the mole lizard, it has legs, but only two front legs.. It does resemble more of a snake than a lizard.. But since it has legs, even only has two of it, it is still classified as a lizard, in the suborder Amphisbaenia, but falls under its own family; Bipepidae.. Even though, the Amphisbaenia suborder included only the legless lizards in the past years..
When I saw posture in the description, I immediately started sitting up.
OMG MICHAEL ARANDA AND A LEGLESS REPTILE!
best episode
It's funny how on 10:51, shed skin suddenly appears on the table
I love this channel..!!! It's always so interesting.
Yes, the magic of editing.
During the conversation about slouching I was literally hold my laptop as close to my face as possible...
Not sure what you mean. There is actually some pretty well defined lines that separate families of animals. Perhaps some categorizations seem to be unexpected or strange, but this is because of how well defined the lines actually are..
With the watching of this episode, I have not officially caught up with all of the Scishow episodes. Yay!!!
I like how the table was clean and then
it had the skin on the table
I sit up straight in a chair or on a couch, but when I'm sitting on the floor I slouch.
Those lizards are awesome and truly... very... very cute :)
Hanging upside down can help a bad back feel better. Use an inversion table or dangle by your knees from a swingset. Everything in the column will get a much needed break. No pressure on the disks etc.
I could listen to her talk for hours.
At the risk of being picky, the ligaments of the spinal cord aren't the weight bearing ones. If you google search for an image of the posterior longitudinal ligament, the interspinous ligament, the superspinous ligament or the ligamentum flavum, you'll see a picture of the ligaments that "prevent" slouching.
So many people that love scishow, my friends and have had discussions about your videos. lol this came out around half an hour ago and a nice amount of views and comments.
You two were so entranced by that Scheltopusik. I was too when I first saw them. They are very amazing animals!
I started really sitting straight some three years ago (walking also) and my life is SO MUCH BETTER. Nothing hurts anymore, neck, back, small of the back, friggin legs etc. It's just better in every aspect, takes a long time, but it is worth it. :)
We have legless lizards in Sweden as well :). Anguis fragilis, seen a few in my life but you react to them when you see them.
Two things have helped my posture, partner dancing and surfing.
I first noticed my posture being more straight three years ago when I was dancing at least 3 times a week. My explanation for dancing as helping my posture is that during partner dancing, the back is crucial in keeping balance and support for your partner.
Surfing has helped me bulk up around the chest, and shoulders, tighten my abdomen and strengthened my back. When you paddle, you must arch your back like a cobra for better >>>>>>
I really like meeting new animals.
As an animal lover I find it endlessly cool.
Thanks for reminding me to sit up
those things are SO cool! :D
i'd love to see one on the show
Thank you and your most lovely guest
god damn micheal makes the show so much fun to watch
Thank you! :P
Every episode is special to me. Never stop. Your my news. Media and tv lol
This was a great birthday video, if only I had seen it when it was released! Just like me though, I forget about gifts given to me constantly.
Just incase anyone wanted to know, you should look and find how your pelvic tilts and do the correct exercises to fix the problem, it can fix your tilt in as little as a month or two
Hank you are so funny trying to use evolution for the reason to keep slouching lol love that!
One thing people don't often understand is that "sitting up straight" is not actually as straight as you might think - the spine naturally falls in an S shape and you really shouldn't fight that. One good way I learned to sit up straight in a healthy way is to think of rolling your hips forward rather than pulling your shoulders/neck up.
Yes! Whiplash, disc herniations and damage, facet joint subluxations and rib head subluxations are all things having a high global flexibility doesn't reduce the risk of. (Most of the things I've mentioned turn out to be part of whiplash too, so you're super on the ball.)
Guess I'll set a reminder to watch this every morning before work. :(
The human species temperature tolerance interval is between around -40ºC (-104F) and 50ºC (122F). However some other variations have to be taken into account in determining exactly how much any given person can withstand.
A good way to speed up the process of improving your posture is to exercise the muscles of your back. It won't shorten the ligaments, but it'll make it easier for you to hold better posture using your muscles.
Aww! Little Hank! :D
8:20 Hank slouches again!
You can slouch when standing up as well. Not only is it the back that curves, but the shoulders move forward as well. Try to keep your shoulders pushed back to make yourself stand up straight.
Haha. I'll get riiiiight on that. ;)
I agree, Thankyou Michael for being yourself x
yeah my sister teaches dance and she always talks about how important phrasing is when trying to improve poster. Just saying "sit up straight" is not enough.
...I got to hold a Binturang when I worked a sunmer at the Bronx Zoo! So cute! Great memories!
I was not expecting to see such a youthful Hank. It caught me off guard.
I actually applauded when Michael showed up.
It has to do with the angular size in your field of vision. If you imagine something really close to your eye, imagine your vision of that thing as a very wide cone extending from your retina to encompass it. As it gets further away, the cone you're imagining becomes more and more acute - and as it takes up less and less of your field of vision, fewer photons from the object actually hit your retina, which is why it's also harder to see.
You have a good point. Fish do have a flexible back. I mean when they are flopping out of the water their back turns in un-believable ways. if you think about it: most animals are in a 'ball' position when they are in the stomach, egg, or any sort of way, but no animals walk like us. So their back doesnt nearly have to go threw as much as ours does. Their bak is ready to go threw what it does. For the first months of life we slouch. Then we crawl (like most animals), then we walk. Its confusing
Amazing insight from Jessi, thanks a lot!
We have slow worms in our garden which are also a type of legless lizard. We have to be very careful doing the gardening so we don't accidentally injure them.