The tiny pupfish going about their lives in their hole, unaware that giant beings fight passionately for their success, just for the sake of seeing them thrive is so wholesome
@Sunny bob Quackers 6,500. And for months nearly every UA-cam video was preceded by an advert for holidays in Qatar. But it's for football! Yay! Never mind about human rights, there are some overpaid prima Donnas kicking a ball around. Yay! But with all the crap going on in the world today, I do find it encouraging that in a country notorious for big business running amok and money and the pursuit of money being all important, in one tiny corner such effort is being made for a fish. Maybe I'm just an old fool, but it would be nice to think it marks some sort of turning of the tide against big business's abuses of people and the world.
@Sunny bob Quackers I suspect most people on here agree with your overall opinion, but maybe this isn’t the place? When people jump in with “what about” subjects, it detracts unnecessarily from the subject at hand. Perhaps you should ask her to do a segment on all those deaths, instead.
@Sunny bob Quackers "What about..." doesn't help your cause. It mostly just makes people roll their eyes at you, and dismiss you and your cause. Sure there are no rules. I dunno about the common courtesy argument. What I do know is that you just seem petty and overly dramatic, and don't make your point but with an extremely small number of people who already agree with you anyway.
I worked construction for years with one of the idiots who went swimming in the hole. He was always a disrespectful little jerk and I was totally unsurprised to learn he had disregarded warnings not to interfere with one of the most endangered species on the planet.
The pupfish are thriving! A news release dated September 29, 2022 from the National Park Service says that 263 pupfish were recently counted at Devils Hole, the highest autumn count in 19 years. This follows a spring 2022 count of 175 pupfish, the highest spring count in 22 years. (The population normally fluctuates from spring to fall as individual fish only live about 12 months.)
One of the greatest reason to keep these pupfish alive is that they are really the only thing left keeping people from putting in irrigation wells for farming and draining the water table in that area.
@@Gloria-ro4vn That could work for a while, but the water crisis in Southern California is an indication that trying to turn the desert into farmland is not the best plan in the long term.
Another argument that could be used... "Know who else wanted to start a race war? Charles Manson!!".. Three guesses who that argument should be used against. Just saying.
I love that whenever Caitlyn mentions an indigenous tribe or people, she always takes the time to make sure she pronounces their names and terms correctly.
She's a white person from Hawai'i, you better believe she learned to respect cultures from a young age, with the added bonus that the native Hawaiian language is very complex and diverse, meaning someone who knows it can pronounce other unfamiliar languages
Not just underwater caves, but caves in general. I still sometimes think about that guy who got stuck in a small cave opening, upside down, after he went the wrong way.
@@zahrianeal1230 They're probably enjoying lots of popcorn while smirking at our antics. Why would you let something full of this much entertainment value die off?
“We don’t know if the Devils Hole pupfish has or ever will serve any of these important functions, which seems unlikely as long as the species remains restricted to its single cavernous refuge. We do know that the pupfish, like all species, has a fundamental right to exist that is independent of its value to humans.”
I think the point is that making small exceptions to species protections is a slippery slope to much larger environmental destruction. often enough, endangered species are not detected or not officially noted in areas that get destroyed for industry or construction, and it's good when the law is strong enough and sufficiently supported by government funds that in those cases when activists push for conservation, even irrelevant little species are sometimes taken seriously. I'm really impressed that conservationists managed to prevent the fish being poisoned when they floated in the way of a big construction project.
Paulius The Mad fun fact: all big pandas belong to the chinese state, pandas in zoos elsewhere are on loan from china for hundreds of thousand of dollars per year (apparently they reliably draw many visitors and function as a status symbol for the zoo), and any baby pandas born also belong to china. china can recall their pandas whenever they want, and they use their loan pandas as a reward for countries that have good relations with china - it's known as panda diplomacy. yes, really, it's serious politics. any country that has pandas in one of their zoos has them because it currently treats china favorably.
Agreed. But also, where did you get the cute little feather friends? I need one in my life, and for my grumpy little birb boi who does not get along with other birbs
Ok but now I want to see the reaction of whatever guard is watching the surveillance video of Caitlin banging on the fence yelling "How you doin' in there pupfish?"
The thing is, the pupfish now are holding onto the environment around them. Their presence is protecting the existence of Devil's Hole, keeping it from being drained or the surrounding area being needlessly developed.
What is so funny, if someone comments, like this, I can hardly ever get to the time stamp. But I had slid back, accidentally stopping right at 14:25!🥰✌
Pleased to announce an article came out today in my local Vegas paper! The pupfish population is on the rise to 236 goin strong! That’s the highest in nearly two decades. Go pupfish
Lol my husband literally went to Death Valley and counted Pupfish when he was a teenager, with his Oceanographer dad. I played this video for him, and he really thought you nailed this topic!
@@paulette2442 And this is why these fish are so important A hole bunch of people are making a living off of our tax dollars counting fish better than getting a real job
@@Ennead13x Am sure the government has many such projects like this to keep you college boys in clover While the taxpayer bust there but to make a living and pay for this nonsense
I honestly want a live cam of the pup fish, so we can just watch them existing. I don't know why but the thought of watching the rarest speices of fish just going about their day is something I want to do.
A very good idea. Seems only right that if tax payers are going to foot the bill for it, that they also be able to observe and appreciate them more as well. Not like they don't already have the necessary tech already in place. An app or website that monetized remote viewing of real time, on site aqua scapes from around the world, with a goal of conservation funding those sites, would be a very cool thing to see!
Thousands / millions of creatures have gone extinct without human interference, if a species decides it wants to exist in such a precarious environment it's hardly my fault, the species is destined to fail, get over it and build me a spa resort.
Funny thing is, we have Sheepshead Pupfish down here in Mobile, the RAINIEST city in America. But they are adaptative in a counterintuitively similar way. That is, they can survive in hot little puddles, after being swept there by hurricanes. They're beautiful, with a black/gray mottled body and ELECTRIC blue head and dorsal area. The males anyway. They're good aquarium fish!
@@audreymuzingo933 Funnily enough my first question was “are there species of pupfish that I could keep in an aquarium?” So you answered my question! 🤣 thank you! Am definitely gonna be looking into all the different types of these now 👀 Also exciting to hear those are in Alabama, since I live in Georgia right near the border of AL!
@@FlowceanSoul I used to catch them, quarantine a while and then sell them on Aquabid, shipped them all over the US! But my favorite was the Sailfin Molly (look those beauties up--gorgeous and easy to raise; they give live birth just like guppies). They're everywhere in ditches here too, in fact I almost always find those and the sheepshead pups in the same spots. BTW in case you're not familiar, Aquabid is like the Ebay of aquarium organisms and supplies. That's where you'll find species that you'll never see in Petco or even Mom n' Pop pet stores. I will say about the pupfish--they're not super aggressive, but a little bit territorial, like each one likes his little place in the tank and will chase others away. They can live with other species, but will absolutely eat babies of other species.
Me, sitting in my fish room watching this. If I could have a Devils Hole aquarium I totally would, those fish are stinking adorable and so scientifically unique I love it!
@@audreymuzingo933 Mollies are precious! My friend actually has a tank of Lyretail Molly who I just saw last night and their babies just gave birth the other night! The fry are so tiny and cute 😭 makes me want a livebearer REAL bad!
"is death really that bad?" a single death? No. man made extinction? Yes. Is it worth a 4,5 million dollar fishtank? To me it absolutely is. 4,5 million might seem like a lot but looking at the big picture it's barely worth a grain of sand in the Sahara. I really loved where you took the point from that question though, I was kinda expecting the cynical approach.
We could literally steal the money to conserve the Devil's Hole Pupfish for like 200 years from Jeff Bezos or any other greedy multibillionaire and none of them would notice. Millions are big money only to people who will never have any.
4.5 million of your tax dollars going to save a fish. Fish we can't even see because they've bobwired everything up. You're worried about fish being extinct? What about our extinction? The kids going to poorly funded schools that don't have nutritional meals or learn from 10 yr old books because the government doesn't seem to have enough money set aside to help fund our teachers or our students in low income areas. But save a rare fish that the regular taxpayer isn't even allowed to see? Hell yeah, we have an extra 4.5 million to build a tiny house and keep those fish alive. Like, wtf? Fuck humanity, save the fish?
@@shadowmatrix0101 There are more than 8 billion people, and if you watched the video, you'd know there aren't even 800 pupfish. Humanity is doing fine.
@@shadowmatrix0101 Yes. Human beings have imposed themselves into essentially every crevice of planet, and therefore bear an inherent responsibility of not fucking destroying the millions of environments and species that we have infringed upon. Humanity’s needs don’t take any special priority over those of fellow species’, even though we ceaselessly behave like they do.
I understand the Nevadans being upset about the production of a farm halted, but destroying a rare one-of-a-kind animal for a mall is the most 80s thing I've ever heard. All it needs is a ragtag group of misfit friends and you got a Steven Spielberg classic right there.
okay but,... if i remember right, bruce wayne actually does breed roses in one of the comics (but says albert does.) if he can successfully breed incredibly fickle flowers, he could also absolutely successfully breed incredibly fickle fish pupfish for batman when?
That father defending his son over the pupfish killing reminded me way too much of other instances of parents minimizing their son's actions. I half expected him to ask what the fish was wearing.
Yeah... my comment would have been more like "after everything I've tried to teach him about consequence, he goes and degrades something he says he values because of drunken stupidity. I love him as my son, but now the law is having to show him what happens when you act like a spoiled frat boy, He's a disappointment and if he doesn't devote the rest of his life to environmental awareness and action - and stops drinking to disastrous levels - I'm gonna have to wash my hands of him. I am sorry to everyone that I have apparently failed as a parent". I'm a parent myself, and my mum worked in Courts & Corrections for years. I get how it's supposed to work.
@@ashleyw7868 oh, God - are you saying that cause it wasn't harsh enough or cause it was too believable as something a responsible parent would say? Was it too well thought through or not well enough? You know, us parents: always trying to hit the right tone (unless we're a**eholes justifying our terribly behaved children)... What was her outfit like again?
So waaaaaaaay back from 1977 to about 1981, I was a student researcher at The Desert Research Station in Hinckley, California. We had created a pond to try to support one of the pupfish. It was a Death Valley specie and was successful as far as I remember. Sadly, a googlemaps search shows the pond is no longer there. Once, a cattle stampede ran across the station grounds and a few cows drowned in the pond. The smell was horrid and I remember that some pupfish died and floated to the surface. We had to collect and count them.
Yeah, I feel like all the fish nerds are going to be coming out of the cracks for this video. It’s unfortunate that the wild population is so low (wiki says 136 individuals in 2019), so there’s problems with the founder’s effect and apparently there has been hybridizing with closely related species. But there’s been successful breeding efforts off-site in the last decade!
@@serenepoppy1408 we can also only guess as to just how far back the current genetic makeup goes, not that they aren't thousands of years old or minimally evolved, but even with perfect conditions and little to no disturbance environmental shifting will step in and throw stones from time to time on its own. Now the quickly shifting impact that mankind is having on the environment will have to tell with time on the evolution of the pups.
I know this isn’t a “corpse” but you should make a video on Henrietta Lacks. She was an African American woman who has a tumor that doctors took samples from and ended up using them all across the world for medical use and she was never told that her tumor cells did this. She died not knowing but her cells still live to this day. Idk if that would count but I think it would be cool.
@ZDF Squid 🐙 I think that that is a great idea! Check some of the links under the video to see if you can get your idea closer to Caitlin & her team. Even snail mail! ✌️
Here's my take: if after all this effort in trying, if the pupfish still somehow go extinct in spite of our best efforts, then it can't be said we didn't at least try and we should feel proud of that. Nature overrides us nearly every time. The fact that we're even ABLE to defy her on occasion is astounding to me. Maybe we'll save them, maybe we won't, but it can't be said we didn't try.
The sheer amount of government buzz around the pupfish is so large that I wouldn't be surprised if there were quite a few conspiracy theories surrounding them.
I'd be curious to see what genetic mutations they've got that let them live in such hostile environment that other fish couldn't ever live in. Are they considered extremophiles?
Probably not an extremophile but they're quite adapted to low O2 saturation, apparently practicing 'paradoxical anaerobism' torpor, not breathing oxygen for a couple hours and producing ethanol as metabolic end-product.
In my conservation course, they tell us that by saving one species from extinction could help give condervationalists the information on how to save other species important to human survival.
I wonder if focusing on human survival is where we are going wrong in general. I'm not wording my thought well but it just reminds me of how astronomers used to think that everything in the sky revoled around earth 🌎.
@@DrowSkinned It's like...we are cutting down and burning down the Amazon rain forest, and there are undiscovered plants in there, which might cure cancer
Been binge watching and OMFG you are exactly what I love about UA-cam. People talking about shit they are passionate about and know about. I love everything about you and your channel, including 1- awesome sense of humor and 2- recognizing that reasonable minds can disagree. Thank you for wonderfully discussing both sides of the save the animals/ignore the animals debate. Everybody thinks there is no middle ground - but there is and if we're going to save the world, we need to find it!
In the 5th grade for a project on animals I decided to research the pupfish, for who knows what reason. The only info I could find out there (pre-ubiquitous internet time) was college level academic research. So my teacher made sure I got the help to dissect that jargon that was way above my head. All I can say is I was so proud of myself for doing the hard work and was so inspired by this unique lil fish that my love for science and research only grew. So much so that I still remember that little poster of pupfish facts these years later. They at least mattered to one little kid.
Honestly really glad the government is so concerned about an endangered species. I feel like that's something really uncommon and I'm happy that they're taking steps to preserve them.
My thoughts too. How many other species would still be alive if governments had taken action to preserve them? And what can we learn from these rare species and their ability to thrive in such hostile environments? It's incredible really!
What fascinates me is how that research station has managed to create and manage the right ecosystem for these fish. That's gotta be a feat of engineering, chemistry, soil and water science, biology, and more. It makes me hopeful that the discoveries they make there could be used in helping human habitats elsewhere on Earth, and possibly beyond Earth as well.
@@OrdinaryEXP Indeed! It's one of those things that often gets overlooked when talking about research that seems very narrow or "useless"; everything is interconnected, so increasing our body of knowledge and improving our methods can sometimes have profound unforeseen benefits. :)
We could use some of that technology in Portland Oregon... the Marxist Socialist Demoncrats in charge are doing everything they can to destroy the ability to live in the city. Its an effing cesspool of human waste on the sidewalks and economic despair..
As a biologist I loved this! A teacher of mine researched the devil hole pupfish and their adaptation to oxygen low environments. Theres a lot to learn from this kind of extremophile vertebrate Save the pupfish!
I’m completely for saving and revitalizing the pupfish population. Their existence supports evolutionary theory in a TON of ways. Plus, they’re super cute.
Funny thing is, we have Sheepshead Pupfish down here in Mobile, the RAINIEST city in America. But they are adaptative in a counterintuitively similar way. That is, they can survive in hot little puddles, after being swept there by hurricanes. They're beautiful, with a black/gray mottled body and ELECTRIC blue head and dorsal area. The males anyway.
@@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934 Ha, everybody thinks that. But nope, they're not even in the top 10. I guess they just whine about it a lot, so the perception is flawed, LOL!! www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-wettest-cities-in-the-united-states-of-america.html
These little guys have survived in that cave for millennia and can teach us a great deal about living in adverse environments. That being said, it's a shame we had to shield them against human stupidity.
Caitlin, how did you manage to put so many interesting topics and issues into one video? Fascinating death story ✅ Water rights ✅ Environmental issues ✅ Endangered species protection ✅ Sustainability ✅ Ethics ✅ I so enjoy your videos and the research and effort you put into them!
You forgot psychotic plot to destroy civilization with a race war, and draining a cave to use as a bunker to survive said apocalypse by Charles Manson. Not to mention the lunatic belief about 12 magic trees
Yes, im sure we should have held all progress because we cant replicae the same conditions in a lab. Im so happy we keep 100+ speical fish alive and well while making sure dealth valley wont be developed for 500+ years.
Can we just take a moment to admire the pretty colors of the devil’s hole pupfish? That pretty color with the cute features just made it my most loved fish. It’s adorable. Save the pupfish!
I was delighted to discover the Furnace Creek pupfish some years ago and saw them again last spring. Adorable little things in one of the most hellish environments and the remnants of prehistoric fish from when Death Valley was a massive lake. Which is badass in and of itself! I've always wanted to see the other species of Pupfish- but thought they were unable to be visited by the public! Thank you so much for this video!
"THreeeeeaaatening the PupFIIIIISH" and "He was gonna murder all the pupfish!" will now be added to the repertoire of weird stuff I mutter to myself as I potter around the house.
Just some food for thought: we put more effort into preserving under 500 fish than we have into restoring the land they exist on to the people who took care of it for thousands of years. im not shitting on this video, it was excellently done and im glad the fish are ok! Just something i was thinking about.
As a guide in an aquarium with a conservation project breeding a mexican cousin of the devil's hole pupfish (Cyprinodon bobmilleri) this video made me extremely happy, thanks for spreadind the word of the pupfish ❤️ Also, the Charles Manson case shall be added to my collection of weird fish related stories to tell the customers, that was a good one!
A good guide obviously must have something to say about any fish in the aquarium, although most of the stuff is just weird biology facts about the species in general or stories about individual animals in the aquarium. History trivia is my personal favorite though! First historical one that comes to mind is the one I usually tell when visitors are laughing at the underside of a skate because it kinda looks as though the nostrils make up the eyes above a wide mouth that looks to be smiling. In the 1500s and after some hucksters and sailors noticed the resemblance as well and used to cut male ray and skate carcasses to look like these weird mermaids or demons and sell them to tourists as mythical creatures, and they were also used in spiritual practices in some parts of the world. These skate mummies are nowadays most commonly known as Jenny Hanivers, you can find some nightmare fueling pics of them on google. The male's claspers (structures used to channel semen to the female during mating) make up the legs of Jenny Hanivers :-)
When those people defied the signs and fencing and invaded the pupfish paradise, I shared pictures from the webcams in the hopes of identifying them. When we had our earthquakes in 2018 on Independence Day, I rushed to watch the pupfish webcams. I am a pupfish fan. How cool that you did this video about them. Thank you!
The video I saw at the time was from the security footage and while it is marked Devil's Hole Pupfish Cam, it is not available on public sites that I can see. The NPS does post that security footage at times; like when they wanted to catch the vandals or when we had our big earthquakes in Ridgecrest.
Yo, I grew up around there, and I am more than familiar with trekking through there, as much as I am also familiar with Spahn Ranch… but I didn’t know about the pupfish issue. I am a local friendly activist and ecologist, so it’s good to know about this stuff. Thanks for enlightening me!!!
was revisiting this and decided to check up on the Devil's Hole's google rating. Now at a cozy 4.8 stars! I'm so glad we all had the same instinct to engage in the most wholesome review-bombing of all time
Finding this video extremely late to the game but my 2020 'interest' became aquatics so hearing about these little guys is incredibly fascinating. I'm glad we could replicate the unique living environment and help them breed more. Because dang that sure is one hell of a little place those guys evolved to live in. Definitely worth protecting and learning more about. Also glad this video didn't end with a tragic article about them being extinct.
@@riggs20 I mean, I can see how being around the entirety of a species left in all of existence that has been in that same singular spot on earth alone for 10s of thousands of years could make me emotional enough to shed a few tears. Thats such a unique, and insane thing to think about
The thing most people seem to forget when they hear about people going to such lengths and costs to save some stupid fish is the number of things we might learn from doing it. The amount of science we gather from just trying to keep the fish alive might lead to a technology that down the line might come in handy for something completely different. A lot of the worlds greatest inventions were supposed to be something else or developed for something completely different. There is quite a good chance something developed for the saving of these fish will be used for something completely different and for that alone it's worth doing this. And also isn't it quite a flex to say those fish still exist because we want them to? We are God to them. Thant's also quite neat lol.
The techniques they use to save the pupfish might also be used to save other "more important" species, like bees or bats! People would lose their minds if the bees died out, but those techniques and technologies don't come from nothing
Exactly. Medical science is also heavily reliant on other species. Antibiotics are from fungi, CRISPR (aka the "gene scissor") is from bacteria, there are even rare marine animals which have been shown to produce enzymes which counteract the effects of cystic fibrosis. We like to think medicine is all human made in a laboratory, but nothing we've ever created has come from nothing. We've merely rearranged or extracted it. Like making bricks from clay. So perhaps it would be a good idea to preserve other species just in case they may contain the key to curing lung cancer or what have you 😊
@SystemsReady Indeed. Heck, we ARE already utilizing technology we take for granted in our daily lives which has its origin in astrophysics and space faring (WiFi being a good example)
The fact these lil pupfish thrive in such extreme environments can shed a lot of light on how they adapt to such an environment too, like many other extremophiles.
I remember when that happened in 2016, got into a massive argument with someone who took the position that the pupfish wasn't worth preserving. Ended up arguing that in addition to being a unique species and the worth of conservation it was worth studying it to discover how it evolved so quickly
You do understand that disregard, it's what you do every time you buy a piece of candy, every time you shower 10 minutes longer than usual.. that time you wanted to feel extra warm on a cold winter day and turned up the heat. All of that has repercussions for everyone, but you prioritized yourself. I do it too, just like the other billion people in the developed world. Small things add up.
@@98Zai we didn't choose the situations we were born into...we're all unwilling participants in a destructive system to some extent or another. comparing our individual abilities to mitigate that on a daily basis, with a willing disregard and a wanton destruction of nature is a pretty different beast.
@@justathumb Well, the wanton destruction of nature in this case is because people wanted whatever they were planning to build. It's exactly the same situation only on different scales. Nature gets destroyed because we pay the people to do it.
This is an excellent video that is so well-researched, produced and put on film. Not only that, but it is, also, clever and creative, and makes one think. Well done!
rolf's voice is killing me lmao also, fish end up in places like this in a few ways, usually by birds. their eggs can stick to duck and goose legs and be carried to new bodies of water. some species' eggs can survive the bird's digestive system and viable eggs are pooped out!
I appreciate your videos, all the topic of death has always really bothered me. But my mother died on December 11th of this year and I just finds your videos comforting
I love fish. I think they are very underrated and overlooked. They are peaceful and lovely. Plus I enjoy getting to know their individual personalities..... Yes, they have personality.
This is the content I crave! In Finland we have our own endangerd animal; the Saimaa ringed seal. Although we haven't built houses for the seals, volunteers have made man-made snowdrifts for the seals in low snow winters. We have about 400 individual seals which is such an improvement from the 100-150 from the 80s.
I recently came across photos of the Saimaa ringed seal on social media, and, I've got to say, they are just the cutest. I wish them nothing but the best and am heartened to hear that conservation efforts are going well!
Yes you can. It's actually not that difficult. The problem is that it requires a bit of creativity and innovative thinking and, on occasion, that can take a few months longer and cost a dew dollars more at the beginning. For example, there are a lot of "brown sites" -- places that had already at one point been developed but were abandoned or have declined to the point that they're no longer viable for economic activity due to the condition of the buildings. They could easily be razed and redeveloped. Likewise, there are entire neighbourhoods that have decayed to the point that only a minority of the original inhabitants still live there. Those could easily be redeveloped.
@@Bunnyroo7 There is only so much water in the desert. Use it all up, and all will see their demise, I don't care how much you think about it. Great for developers selling land that is destined to be worthless.
The tiny pupfish going about their lives in their hole, unaware that giant beings fight passionately for their success, just for the sake of seeing them thrive is so wholesome
This feels like a movie plot, and I'm here for it
@Sunny bob Quackers 6,500.
And for months nearly every UA-cam video was preceded by an advert for holidays in Qatar. But it's for football! Yay! Never mind about human rights, there are some overpaid prima Donnas kicking a ball around. Yay!
But with all the crap going on in the world today, I do find it encouraging that in a country notorious for big business running amok and money and the pursuit of money being all important, in one tiny corner such effort is being made for a fish. Maybe I'm just an old fool, but it would be nice to think it marks some sort of turning of the tide against big business's abuses of people and the world.
@Sunny bob Quackers I suspect most people on here agree with your overall opinion, but maybe this isn’t the place? When people jump in with “what about” subjects, it detracts unnecessarily from the subject at hand. Perhaps you should ask her to do a segment on all those deaths, instead.
@Sunny bob Quackers I’m not talking about rules. I’m talking about common courtesy.
@Sunny bob Quackers "What about..." doesn't help your cause. It mostly just makes people roll their eyes at you, and dismiss you and your cause. Sure there are no rules. I dunno about the common courtesy argument. What I do know is that you just seem petty and overly dramatic, and don't make your point but with an extremely small number of people who already agree with you anyway.
"They're just smaller, they're not territorial, they're a little needy, they're just trying to be your friend!" Pupfish are friend shaped confirmed.
I am pupfish
Have you given your life to Christ? If not, why haven’t you been trying to get your life right with him so that you may have eternal life?...
Yeah there basic discription sounds like kirby.
@@OfficialWRX god is dead and penicillin killed him, he should have told us he had a allergy
@@dr.jackbright963 yes, I heard about that. So sad....
I worked construction for years with one of the idiots who went swimming in the hole. He was always a disrespectful little jerk and I was totally unsurprised to learn he had disregarded warnings not to interfere with one of the most endangered species on the planet.
…I hope you slapped him lol
One of the dead ones?
The pupfish are thriving! A news release dated September 29, 2022 from the National Park Service says that 263 pupfish were recently counted at Devils Hole, the highest autumn count in 19 years. This follows a spring 2022 count of 175 pupfish, the highest spring count in 22 years. (The population normally fluctuates from spring to fall as individual fish only live about 12 months.)
According to Death Valley National Park, they counted 191 pupfish in April 2024 which they say is the highest spring count in 25 years.
@@deed5811 Yeah I saw that on the news and immediately thought of this video
This is positive climate news. So glad to see it 💕
It’s been ages but I need to know why have they have the hole gated when u can walk a bit down to get close to the pupfish?
@@jamie-leighgibson2338the place you can walk down to is a different pond with a slightly different species of pupfish that is not as endangered
One of the greatest reason to keep these pupfish alive is that they are really the only thing left keeping people from putting in irrigation wells for farming and draining the water table in that area.
tiny little heroes
Mhmm. The food system here is such a destructive mess.
If the water is salty, you will not be able to farm anything. And that water is salty.
NO one lives there so by protecting the fish you are protecting dry barren land from being turned into fertile land that produces food for the masses.
@@Gloria-ro4vn That could work for a while, but the water crisis in Southern California is an indication that trying to turn the desert into farmland is not the best plan in the long term.
I feel the best argument for the conservation of the Pupfish is: "You know who else wanted to make the Pupfish extinct? CHARLES MANSON!!!!". :D
Best argument that could be made
You are NOT WRONG! LOL
Best comment
@@jonvn I dunno how nice you can be when you were raised in prison and high *all* the time
Another argument that could be used...
"Know who else wanted to start a race war? Charles Manson!!"..
Three guesses who that argument should be used against.
Just saying.
Never knew how much I needed a mortician yelling through a gate "How you doin in there, pupfish?!?"
I feel better now
Hey hi, nice name by the way!
Are you a pupfish.
@@justaduck3615 For Caitlin, I can be whatever she wants!!!
@@golfgrabu Honorary Pupfish!
I love that whenever Caitlyn mentions an indigenous tribe or people, she always takes the time to make sure she pronounces their names and terms correctly.
She's a white person from Hawai'i, you better believe she learned to respect cultures from a young age, with the added bonus that the native Hawaiian language is very complex and diverse, meaning someone who knows it can pronounce other unfamiliar languages
It is the respectful thing to do. 💕
@peacenow42 I paraphrased what Caitlyn said in her video about the cult that moved to Hawaii, it's her own words
@Sunny bob Quackers you can say your words. your words are just stupid, inorant, and racist. you are not your uncle.
Yet you don't even know what your real name is...
Alanis Morrissette: THAT is ironic!
People who explore underwater caves have a lack of fear that astounds me.
A lack of common sense obviously
Why do non of them bring a rope either
Or a death wish
Not just underwater caves, but caves in general. I still sometimes think about that guy who got stuck in a small cave opening, upside down, after he went the wrong way.
I know I can't even go into an MRI without panicking
Caitlin as pupfish singing Starshine is EVERYTHING.
The bangs, honestly, are uncanny.
All hail the new editor!
Yeah, that's where I am at, now.
😳⚓🤣
Yes, we live for it
I....did not expect that and fell out laughing.
The little pupfish just living their happy little lives unaware of all the people fighting over them🥺
Who knows, maybe we're like the pupfish and something out there fights to keep us alive.
@@caleb_güero I wonder what they are thinking keeping us alive 🤔
@@zahrianeal1230 They're probably enjoying lots of popcorn while smirking at our antics. Why would you let something full of this much entertainment value die off?
@@caleb_güero I hope they fight harder, we’re doing a lot of stuff to kill ourselves out here
@@caleb_güero Spaceships with bumper stickers "Save/Kill The Humans"? 😎
“We don’t know if the Devils Hole pupfish has or ever will serve any of these important functions, which seems unlikely as long as the species remains restricted to its single cavernous refuge. We do know that the pupfish, like all species, has a fundamental right to exist that is independent of its value to humans.”
It’s like keeping a pet at this point. An entire species as a pet. A really expensive pet. And I’m all for it.
That's a nice flex for our species whenever we make contact tbh.
"Why are you protecting them?"
"Because we can and we love them"
You know what? Not even that expensive, there are far far more expensive pets on earth - looking at pandas
I think the point is that making small exceptions to species protections is a slippery slope to much larger environmental destruction. often enough, endangered species are not detected or not officially noted in areas that get destroyed for industry or construction, and it's good when the law is strong enough and sufficiently supported by government funds that in those cases when activists push for conservation, even irrelevant little species are sometimes taken seriously. I'm really impressed that conservationists managed to prevent the fish being poisoned when they floated in the way of a big construction project.
Paulius The Mad fun fact: all big pandas belong to the chinese state, pandas in zoos elsewhere are on loan from china for hundreds of thousand of dollars per year (apparently they reliably draw many visitors and function as a status symbol for the zoo), and any baby pandas born also belong to china. china can recall their pandas whenever they want, and they use their loan pandas as a reward for countries that have good relations with china - it's known as panda diplomacy. yes, really, it's serious politics. any country that has pandas in one of their zoos has them because it currently treats china favorably.
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Liz pp
Can we just take a moment to commend Caitlin's bravery for going so close to an underwater cave with corpses inside?
True!
Agreed. But also, where did you get the cute little feather friends? I need one in my life, and for my grumpy little birb boi who does not get along with other birbs
She was protected by the power of her bangs.
She deserves recognition for that 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Agree! I was thinking that the whole way through. Man, talk about confronting your fears.
Ok but now I want to see the reaction of whatever guard is watching the surveillance video of Caitlin banging on the fence yelling "How you doin' in there pupfish?"
He watches the scientists do it after a few drinks most nights. Guarantee scientist drunk angst is a regular event.
@@totchi6 don't need to be drunk
@@clearlieme don't have to be drunk, but with these past couple of years the numbing effects of the Devils Urine really does help!
The thing is, the pupfish now are holding onto the environment around them. Their presence is protecting the existence of Devil's Hole, keeping it from being drained or the surrounding area being needlessly developed.
A bunch of inadvertent threshold guardians
Also keeping farmers from irrigating land for growing food.
My therapist: "Pupfish Caitlin isn't real, she can't hurt you"
Pupfish Caitlin: 14:25
My kinda humour!
Caitlin at 4:50 is creepier.
What is so funny, if someone comments, like this, I can hardly ever get to the time stamp. But I had slid back, accidentally stopping right at 14:25!🥰✌
Haha! I was coming here to comment that I think that may be the creepiest thing on the internet...
@@laurajarrell6187 You just click on it?
Only Caitlin can make a 20+ minute video about a hole in the ground enjoyable
A true queen
@homo sapiens... 1.5 million subscribers for good reason.
Oh so true 😉
Making a hole in the ground interesting for 20+ minutes is part of her job desceiption.
The only hole in the ground where the green grass never grows around it.
No, it's the hole that is interesting.
“What you in for?”
“Shot a fish.”
this comment made me laugh into asthma spasm, thank you, it made my day!
*edges away*
.... and I would do it again! 😅
Thankfully not in a barrel this time
Pleased to announce an article came out today in my local Vegas paper! The pupfish population is on the rise to 236 goin strong! That’s the highest in nearly two decades. Go pupfish
YAY!
Awesome 💯
Lol my husband literally went to Death Valley and counted Pupfish when he was a teenager, with his Oceanographer dad. I played this video for him, and he really thought you nailed this topic!
ohh I was wondering, how do they count the fish?
@@paulette2442 And this is why these fish are so important A hole bunch of people are making a living off of our tax dollars counting fish better than getting a real job
kurt nulf idk about you, but two stints a year doesn't net me a lotta cash. It's part of their job, not the entirety.
@@Ennead13x Am sure the government has many such projects like this to keep you college boys in clover While the taxpayer bust there but to make a living and pay for this nonsense
@@kurtnulf3362 yea that 4 million dollar pupfish house tax was really rough on me and the 328 million other people in the us
I honestly want a live cam of the pup fish, so we can just watch them existing. I don't know why but the thought of watching the rarest speices of fish just going about their day is something I want to do.
Yes!!
My city's cathedral has a webcam set up for the nesting birds, so why not? Would be brilliant!
A very good idea. Seems only right that if tax payers are going to foot the bill for it, that they also be able to observe and appreciate them more as well. Not like they don't already have the necessary tech already in place. An app or website that monetized remote viewing of real time, on site aqua scapes from around the world, with a goal of conservation funding those sites, would be a very cool thing to see!
How do we get your comment pinned so its seen by more people? It is a brilliant idea!
great idea
"is it our fault that they're dying?"
The answer is almost always yes.
Moral of the story: humans can’t stop touching things.
Considering the fact that we're humans, yes, the answer is always yes.
Thousands / millions of creatures have gone extinct without human interference, if a species decides it wants to exist in such a precarious environment it's hardly my fault, the species is destined to fail, get over it and build me a spa resort.
White privilege kills just about everything.
@@marklatimer7333 shut up MARK
I love the pupfish, they are small, blue, have adorable faces, and are a bane to corporations. Truly a gift to the world
With a name like pupfish, why WOULDN’T you want to do everything in your power to save them? 🥺
Gotta say Pupfish is a very cute name
'My little Pupfish'... Absolutely should be a term of endearment
Maybe Bc it’s first name is the “devils hole”
@@Mark-sd5jk that's just another pro on my list
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Caitlin: “it’s about a fish”
Me, who loves learning about fish as much as I do death: “👁👄👁 go on”
Funny thing is, we have Sheepshead Pupfish down here in Mobile, the RAINIEST city in America. But they are adaptative in a counterintuitively similar way. That is, they can survive in hot little puddles, after being swept there by hurricanes. They're beautiful, with a black/gray mottled body and ELECTRIC blue head and dorsal area. The males anyway. They're good aquarium fish!
@@audreymuzingo933 Funnily enough my first question was “are there species of pupfish that I could keep in an aquarium?” So you answered my question! 🤣 thank you! Am definitely gonna be looking into all the different types of these now 👀 Also exciting to hear those are in Alabama, since I live in Georgia right near the border of AL!
@@FlowceanSoul I used to catch them, quarantine a while and then sell them on Aquabid, shipped them all over the US! But my favorite was the Sailfin Molly (look those beauties up--gorgeous and easy to raise; they give live birth just like guppies). They're everywhere in ditches here too, in fact I almost always find those and the sheepshead pups in the same spots. BTW in case you're not familiar, Aquabid is like the Ebay of aquarium organisms and supplies. That's where you'll find species that you'll never see in Petco or even Mom n' Pop pet stores.
I will say about the pupfish--they're not super aggressive, but a little bit territorial, like each one likes his little place in the tank and will chase others away. They can live with other species, but will absolutely eat babies of other species.
Me, sitting in my fish room watching this. If I could have a Devils Hole aquarium I totally would, those fish are stinking adorable and so scientifically unique I love it!
@@audreymuzingo933 Mollies are precious! My friend actually has a tank of Lyretail Molly who I just saw last night and their babies just gave birth the other night! The fry are so tiny and cute 😭 makes me want a livebearer REAL bad!
Please add a "Save the Pupfish" bumper sticker to the merch store.
Theres a merch store??!!
@@gemmalouise4903 yep, it's in the description labeled as The Good Death Store.
Please add "Kill the Pupfish" bumper sticker to the merch store.
I want a kill the pupfish sticker
Make it small tho
"is death really that bad?"
a single death? No.
man made extinction? Yes.
Is it worth a 4,5 million dollar fishtank? To me it absolutely is. 4,5 million might seem like a lot but looking at the big picture it's barely worth a grain of sand in the Sahara.
I really loved where you took the point from that question though, I was kinda expecting the cynical approach.
We could literally steal the money to conserve the Devil's Hole Pupfish for like 200 years from Jeff Bezos or any other greedy multibillionaire and none of them would notice. Millions are big money only to people who will never have any.
4.5 million of your tax dollars going to save a fish. Fish we can't even see because they've bobwired everything up. You're worried about fish being extinct? What about our extinction? The kids going to poorly funded schools that don't have nutritional meals or learn from 10 yr old books because the government doesn't seem to have enough money set aside to help fund our teachers or our students in low income areas. But save a rare fish that the regular taxpayer isn't even allowed to see? Hell yeah, we have an extra 4.5 million to build a tiny house and keep those fish alive. Like, wtf? Fuck humanity, save the fish?
@@shadowmatrix0101 There are more than 8 billion people, and if you watched the video, you'd know there aren't even 800 pupfish. Humanity is doing fine.
Um no that is a complete waste of money
@@shadowmatrix0101 Yes. Human beings have imposed themselves into essentially every crevice of planet, and therefore bear an inherent responsibility of not fucking destroying the millions of environments and species that we have infringed upon. Humanity’s needs don’t take any special priority over those of fellow species’, even though we ceaselessly behave like they do.
I understand the Nevadans being upset about the production of a farm halted, but destroying a rare one-of-a-kind animal for a mall is the most 80s thing I've ever heard. All it needs is a ragtag group of misfit friends and you got a Steven Spielberg classic right there.
If a billionaire needs a hobby, their options could include becoming Batman and breeding pupfish
i vote for the pupfish breeder. less damage to the surrounding city and healthier for all involved.
Nope, while you can have a batmobil you can't purchase pupfish.
I feel like convincing pupfish to get it on and watching them is more of an aquaman thing.
okay but,... if i remember right, bruce wayne actually does breed roses in one of the comics (but says albert does.) if he can successfully breed incredibly fickle flowers, he could also absolutely successfully breed incredibly fickle fish
pupfish for batman when?
@@spinejackel sure, but pupfish are off-brand for him. He’d be all about some batfish.
I came for the fish content.
Seeing you in these comments made my day a little brighter.
@@argonautilus9540 glad to be of service!
Fish Room field trip to the hatchery?
Funny so did I. 😅
Omg Rachel O Leary!!! Im subscribed to you and i watch you videos.. it's nice to see the fish keeping hobbyists here too!
I hope people appreciate the attention to detail. When I saw Rolf on the Fish Stick box, I lost it. Fantastic production work.
"The pup fish are the most isolated vertebrates in the world" - I'd like to nominate myself for at least second most isolated vertebrate.
Awwwwwww.....
Nah you have internet. Hermits and deep Forrest dwellers are more isolated.
@@shannonhensley2942 I'm cottage core
Oh boy do I have news for all of you
That father defending his son over the pupfish killing reminded me way too much of other instances of parents minimizing their son's actions. I half expected him to ask what the fish was wearing.
Yeah, those fish were leading him on with that high fence and that barbed wire....how's a red-blooded fella to resist that kinda temptation?
🥺☹ I'm out, I don't want to hear it.
Yeah... my comment would have been more like "after everything I've tried to teach him about consequence, he goes and degrades something he says he values because of drunken stupidity. I love him as my son, but now the law is having to show him what happens when you act like a spoiled frat boy, He's a disappointment and if he doesn't devote the rest of his life to environmental awareness and action - and stops drinking to disastrous levels - I'm gonna have to wash my hands of him. I am sorry to everyone that I have apparently failed as a parent".
I'm a parent myself, and my mum worked in Courts & Corrections for years. I get how it's supposed to work.
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Are you sure you’re not the father of the pupfish slayer? 🤨
@@ashleyw7868 oh, God - are you saying that cause it wasn't harsh enough or cause it was too believable as something a responsible parent would say? Was it too well thought through or not well enough?
You know, us parents: always trying to hit the right tone (unless we're a**eholes justifying our terribly behaved children)...
What was her outfit like again?
So waaaaaaaay back from 1977 to about 1981, I was a student researcher at The Desert Research Station in Hinckley, California. We had created a pond to try to support one of the pupfish. It was a Death Valley specie and was successful as far as I remember. Sadly, a googlemaps search shows the pond is no longer there. Once, a cattle stampede ran across the station grounds and a few cows drowned in the pond. The smell was horrid and I remember that some pupfish died and floated to the surface. We had to collect and count them.
This whole pupfish war sounds like some Scooby- Doo villian scheme
The pup fish might say to us, “Do not ask for whom extinction looms. It looms for your whole insane species.”
glub glub. And not a moment too soon. The bees and the frogs agree
lazy homebody - I dare say the entire natural world be glad to see the back of us. Christ, come to think of it, I would.
@@lazyhomebody1356 The bees and the phytoplankton should go on strike until we’re gone. It wouldn’t take long.
@@bethmoore7722 Or the ants should stop cleaning up and bury us 12 feet under rotting dead things
WHY WOULD THEY SAY THAT???? YOU MIGHT SAY THAT. I DO NOT THINK THEY GIVE A SHIT.
Title: " *Rarest Fish in the World* "
Me: *_this is the information I crave_*
Yeah, I feel like all the fish nerds are going to be coming out of the cracks for this video. It’s unfortunate that the wild population is so low (wiki says 136 individuals in 2019), so there’s problems with the founder’s effect and apparently there has been hybridizing with closely related species. But there’s been successful breeding efforts off-site in the last decade!
@@serenepoppy1408 we can also only guess as to just how far back the current genetic makeup goes, not that they aren't thousands of years old or minimally evolved, but even with perfect conditions and little to no disturbance environmental shifting will step in and throw stones from time to time on its own. Now the quickly shifting impact that mankind is having on the environment will have to tell with time on the evolution of the pups.
We need more videos like this, I LOVE SEEING AGRESSIVE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES. I’d love to see more content like this.
Caitlin getting over her fear of deep water caves by dedicating an entire video to a rare pupfish that would be your friend
I would rather have 200 Devils Hole pupfish than one bomb. Just sayin'.
The mermaid in me agrees.
The problem with both bombs and pupfish is that you can't have just one.
@@wendychavez5348 Forget to hit 'reply' or forget to log off main XD
I know this isn’t a “corpse” but you should make a video on Henrietta Lacks. She was an African American woman who has a tumor that doctors took samples from and ended up using them all across the world for medical use and she was never told that her tumor cells did this. She died not knowing but her cells still live to this day. Idk if that would count but I think it would be cool.
@ZDF Squid 🐙 I think that that is a great idea! Check some of the links under the video to see if you can get your idea closer to Caitlin & her team. Even snail mail! ✌️
I agree. Henrietta would make for the perfect iconic corpse you've never heard of.
YES I would love to see this! I feel like her story is so insanely important for science but also heartbreaking and it needs more attention.
Also, her family was never reimbursed for the research "He-La" cells contributed to.
@@LisaMarieParadee Fun fact "hela" means "to heal" - "make whole" in Swedish. Perhaps her immortal cells will cure the terrible affliction of death.
Here's my take: if after all this effort in trying, if the pupfish still somehow go extinct in spite of our best efforts, then it can't be said we didn't at least try and we should feel proud of that. Nature overrides us nearly every time. The fact that we're even ABLE to defy her on occasion is astounding to me. Maybe we'll save them, maybe we won't, but it can't be said we didn't try.
I agree with the sentiment, but I'd assume climate change can kill them off at some point, which would be our fault anyway
I can’t believe you thoroughly entertained me by taking about fish for 23 minutes
As a fish keeper who just finished binging this entire channel yesterday, this video seems like it was made for me. It probably was, so thanks Caitlin
The sheer amount of government buzz around the pupfish is so large that I wouldn't be surprised if there were quite a few conspiracy theories surrounding them.
Remember the alien autopsy? Pupfish
@@lazyhomebody1356 There is no such thing as lizard people, they're just pupfish.
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I'd be curious to see what genetic mutations they've got that let them live in such hostile environment that other fish couldn't ever live in. Are they considered extremophiles?
Probably not an extremophile but they're quite adapted to low O2 saturation, apparently practicing 'paradoxical anaerobism' torpor, not breathing oxygen for a couple hours and producing ethanol as metabolic end-product.
I wish we could all fight this hard for every endangered species out there
In my conservation course, they tell us that by saving one species from extinction could help give condervationalists the information on how to save other species important to human survival.
100%
I wonder if focusing on human survival is where we are going wrong in general. I'm not wording my thought well but it just reminds me of how astronomers used to think that everything in the sky revoled around earth 🌎.
@@DrowSkinned It's like...we are cutting down and burning down the Amazon rain forest, and there are undiscovered plants in there, which might cure cancer
@@DrowSkinned it's not ideal, but it is a way to get the apathetic in board.
Sees Charels Manson: "You had my curiosity"
Its about a fish: "Now you have my full attention 👀👀"
Been binge watching and OMFG you are exactly what I love about UA-cam. People talking about shit they are passionate about and know about. I love everything about you and your channel, including 1- awesome sense of humor and 2- recognizing that reasonable minds can disagree. Thank you for wonderfully discussing both sides of the save the animals/ignore the animals debate. Everybody thinks there is no middle ground - but there is and if we're going to save the world, we need to find it!
In the 5th grade for a project on animals I decided to research the pupfish, for who knows what reason. The only info I could find out there (pre-ubiquitous internet time) was college level academic research. So my teacher made sure I got the help to dissect that jargon that was way above my head. All I can say is I was so proud of myself for doing the hard work and was so inspired by this unique lil fish that my love for science and research only grew. So much so that I still remember that little poster of pupfish facts these years later. They at least mattered to one little kid.
This video made me remember that I too did a report on pupfish as a small deathling. And as an adult I had forgotten all about them!
This is the sweetest thing ever 😭😭😭
This made my soul happy.
That's adorable, thank you for sharing this story. >3
Awww.. I take back the poor taste joke about Pupfish Sticks I left elsewhere... Now I feel terrible!
As a bonafide marine biologist, and member of the order, I approve this message
As a (hopefully) future marine biologist, I said "haha cute little pup fishy" at least twice during the video
I'm a zoology student and I want to work in the pupfish facility
Honestly really glad the government is so concerned about an endangered species. I feel like that's something really uncommon and I'm happy that they're taking steps to preserve them.
My thoughts too. How many other species would still be alive if governments had taken action to preserve them? And what can we learn from these rare species and their ability to thrive in such hostile environments? It's incredible really!
It’s not that govs don’t try to keep species from becoming endangered it’s that corps are greedy and bribe the greedy gov not to get in their way.
There is evidence that fish eggs can survive a journey in birds stomachs ! So maybe that was the case for the pupfish ancestors
What fascinates me is how that research station has managed to create and manage the right ecosystem for these fish. That's gotta be a feat of engineering, chemistry, soil and water science, biology, and more. It makes me hopeful that the discoveries they make there could be used in helping human habitats elsewhere on Earth, and possibly beyond Earth as well.
I guess that's also part of the incentive.
@@OrdinaryEXP Indeed! It's one of those things that often gets overlooked when talking about research that seems very narrow or "useless"; everything is interconnected, so increasing our body of knowledge and improving our methods can sometimes have profound unforeseen benefits. :)
Money is a hell of a drug
We could use some of that technology in Portland Oregon... the Marxist Socialist Demoncrats in charge are doing everything they can to destroy the ability to live in the city. Its an effing cesspool of human waste on the sidewalks and economic despair..
That part is pretty rad
As a biologist I loved this! A teacher of mine researched the devil hole pupfish and their adaptation to oxygen low environments. Theres a lot to learn from this kind of extremophile vertebrate Save the pupfish!
*I'm Going to TELL YOU WUT I KNOW!!!!*
*IF I was on the Asphault GeTTing Murdered, NONE of YOU wouLd Do SQUOT for Me!!!!*
I’m completely for saving and revitalizing the pupfish population. Their existence supports evolutionary theory in a TON of ways. Plus, they’re super cute.
Funny thing is, we have Sheepshead Pupfish down here in Mobile, the RAINIEST city in America. But they are adaptative in a counterintuitively similar way. That is, they can survive in hot little puddles, after being swept there by hurricanes. They're beautiful, with a black/gray mottled body and ELECTRIC blue head and dorsal area. The males anyway.
@@audreymuzingo933 hey I thought Seattle was rainiest?
@@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934 Ha, everybody thinks that. But nope, they're not even in the top 10. I guess they just whine about it a lot, so the perception is flawed, LOL!! www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-wettest-cities-in-the-united-states-of-america.html
@@audreymuzingo933 well, you gotta keep those puddles topped off for the fishies!
These little guys have survived in that cave for millennia and can teach us a great deal about living in adverse environments. That being said, it's a shame we had to shield them against human stupidity.
Caitlin, how did you manage to put so many interesting topics and issues into one video? Fascinating death story ✅ Water rights ✅ Environmental issues ✅ Endangered species protection ✅ Sustainability ✅ Ethics ✅ I so enjoy your videos and the research and effort you put into them!
You forgot psychotic plot to destroy civilization with a race war, and draining a cave to use as a bunker to survive said apocalypse by Charles Manson.
Not to mention the lunatic belief about 12 magic trees
Don't forget, cute fish ✅
Yes, im sure we should have held all progress because we cant replicae the same conditions in a lab. Im so happy we keep 100+ speical fish alive and well while making sure dealth valley wont be developed for 500+ years.
Fish geekery, true crime, conservation, horrible (presumed) deaths... this video speaks to my entire soul.
Can we just take a moment to admire the pretty colors of the devil’s hole pupfish? That pretty color with the cute features just made it my most loved fish. It’s adorable. Save the pupfish!
I was delighted to discover the Furnace Creek pupfish some years ago and saw them again last spring. Adorable little things in one of the most hellish environments and the remnants of prehistoric fish from when Death Valley was a massive lake. Which is badass in and of itself! I've always wanted to see the other species of Pupfish- but thought they were unable to be visited by the public! Thank you so much for this video!
“If we get copyright claimed for a CHARLES MANSON song, I swear to god...” I died laughing 🤣🤣🤣
Corpos willl be corpos, so you never know. It would be hilarious though :)
Oh no how awful 😢
He's dead, at the very least.
Lol right
@@sarah2.017 UA-cam probably wouldn't care. :/
"THreeeeeaaatening the PupFIIIIISH" and "He was gonna murder all the pupfish!" will now be added to the repertoire of weird stuff I mutter to myself as I potter around the house.
Big same
I was looking for this comment
You peeps are going to confuse your relatives and any carers when you get dementia in old age and *these* are the phrases you remember. 😂
Pupfish emoji would look like this but with a tiny smile 🥺
Just some food for thought: we put more effort into preserving under 500 fish than we have into restoring the land they exist on to the people who took care of it for thousands of years.
im not shitting on this video, it was excellently done and im glad the fish are ok! Just something i was thinking about.
As a guide in an aquarium with a conservation project breeding a mexican cousin of the devil's hole pupfish (Cyprinodon bobmilleri) this video made me extremely happy, thanks for spreadind the word of the pupfish ❤️ Also, the Charles Manson case shall be added to my collection of weird fish related stories to tell the customers, that was a good one!
How many weird fish related stories do you have? I'm curious.
I would like to hear these stories too
A good guide obviously must have something to say about any fish in the aquarium, although most of the stuff is just weird biology facts about the species in general or stories about individual animals in the aquarium. History trivia is my personal favorite though!
First historical one that comes to mind is the one I usually tell when visitors are laughing at the underside of a skate because it kinda looks as though the nostrils make up the eyes above a wide mouth that looks to be smiling. In the 1500s and after some hucksters and sailors noticed the resemblance as well and used to cut male ray and skate carcasses to look like these weird mermaids or demons and sell them to tourists as mythical creatures, and they were also used in spiritual practices in some parts of the world. These skate mummies are nowadays most commonly known as Jenny Hanivers, you can find some nightmare fueling pics of them on google. The male's claspers (structures used to channel semen to the female during mating) make up the legs of Jenny Hanivers :-)
It was a great storytelling
I agree! She is truly a great story teller! She can talk about anything and make it interesting. She really does have that talent
Omg... I am the 666th like on this comment
😳😳😳
stfu verified
When those people defied the signs and fencing and invaded the pupfish paradise, I shared pictures from the webcams in the hopes of identifying them. When we had our earthquakes in 2018 on Independence Day, I rushed to watch the pupfish webcams. I am a pupfish fan. How cool that you did this video about them. Thank you!
Where is this pupfish webcam you speak of?!!!
Do you have a link? I feel like Caitlyn might have sparked some interest. Pupfish groupies may soon outnumber the Pupfish.
Are you from the area? I was raised in Amargosa, so this whole video and all of the responses are like my crack right now
The video I saw at the time was from the security footage and while it is marked Devil's Hole Pupfish Cam, it is not available on public sites that I can see. The NPS does post that security footage at times; like when they wanted to catch the vandals or when we had our big earthquakes in Ridgecrest.
Yo, I grew up around there, and I am more than familiar with trekking through there, as much as I am also familiar with Spahn Ranch… but I didn’t know about the pupfish issue. I am a local friendly activist and ecologist, so it’s good to know about this stuff. Thanks for enlightening me!!!
Caitlyn is the best storyteller in UA-cam. Period. You should have your own show.
Pretty sure that's what this is, lol.
I'm here for it.
I feel like this whole video was just Caitlin saying "fish are friends, not food" lol Save the pupfish!
was revisiting this and decided to check up on the Devil's Hole's google rating. Now at a cozy 4.8 stars! I'm so glad we all had the same instinct to engage in the most wholesome review-bombing of all time
Working on getting my BS in ecology and I absolutely loved this video and hearing your perspective. Save the pupfish!!
Caitlin... that kimono / duster is just ass kicking. It needed to be said.
It's gorgeous!
I never want to be shallow but her fashion/ jewelry/ nails/ home decor are all so interesting and just on point.
I came her to see if anyone knew where she got it :)
Yeah it makes her eyes POP
Very victorian bohemian sorceress
“So what are you in for?”
“I killed.”
“A man?”
“A fish.”
😱
When you catch a sea bass in animal crossing for the fiftieth time that day
That's when the convict says, "What'd kill a fish for; they're our number one source of fun!"
(Think of Shawshank Redemption) 😳🤣🤣🤣
Sometimes a fish is more than just a fish.
@@rookmaster7502 sometimes a fish is a pupfish.
a PUPfish it has pup in the name, you can't kill a pup and not go to jail!
I have no idea what you intended with this video, but I now know one thing:
I would die for those pupfish. I love them.
Finding this video extremely late to the game but my 2020 'interest' became aquatics so hearing about these little guys is incredibly fascinating. I'm glad we could replicate the unique living environment and help them breed more. Because dang that sure is one hell of a little place those guys evolved to live in.
Definitely worth protecting and learning more about. Also glad this video didn't end with a tragic article about them being extinct.
I actually cried when I went to Devil’s Hole. And I didn’t even see the pupfish; I just knew they were there.
I’m all for saving the pupfish, but come oooooon! 🙄
@@riggs20 I mean, I can see how being around the entirety of a species left in all of existence that has been in that same singular spot on earth alone for 10s of thousands of years could make me emotional enough to shed a few tears. Thats such a unique, and insane thing to think about
That's ridiculous.
The thing most people seem to forget when they hear about people going to such lengths and costs to save some stupid fish is the number of things we might learn from doing it. The amount of science we gather from just trying to keep the fish alive might lead to a technology that down the line might come in handy for something completely different. A lot of the worlds greatest inventions were supposed to be something else or developed for something completely different. There is quite a good chance something developed for the saving of these fish will be used for something completely different and for that alone it's worth doing this. And also isn't it quite a flex to say those fish still exist because we want them to? We are God to them. Thant's also quite neat lol.
The techniques they use to save the pupfish might also be used to save other "more important" species, like bees or bats! People would lose their minds if the bees died out, but those techniques and technologies don't come from nothing
@@finapimentel7321 Excellent point!
Exactly. Medical science is also heavily reliant on other species. Antibiotics are from fungi, CRISPR (aka the "gene scissor") is from bacteria, there are even rare marine animals which have been shown to produce enzymes which counteract the effects of cystic fibrosis.
We like to think medicine is all human made in a laboratory, but nothing we've ever created has come from nothing. We've merely rearranged or extracted it. Like making bricks from clay.
So perhaps it would be a good idea to preserve other species just in case they may contain the key to curing lung cancer or what have you 😊
@SystemsReady Indeed. Heck, we ARE already utilizing technology we take for granted in our daily lives which has its origin in astrophysics and space faring (WiFi being a good example)
The fact these lil pupfish thrive in such extreme environments can shed a lot of light on how they adapt to such an environment too, like many other extremophiles.
the last time i was this fast, i found out caitlyn is scared of cave diving corpses and acquire a new phobia
When I saw the title I though "missing divers, that's like her favorite thing ever right?" 🤣
Omg same
I get anxiety just thinking about it now
Is her new phobia a fear of being crushed by a giant pendant?
Caitlyn, on cozy cold autumn days i go to my kitchen, bake a pear cake and listen to your videos, this is happyness for me
I remember when that happened in 2016, got into a massive argument with someone who took the position that the pupfish wasn't worth preserving. Ended up arguing that in addition to being a unique species and the worth of conservation it was worth studying it to discover how it evolved so quickly
Are you from the area? I was raised in Amargosa. Now I'll trolling the comments thread looking for other stories from locals about pupfish
life is always worth fighting for. As long as we can, why not recognise the value of all life forms?
@@Hakumeiun Afraid not
@@Zeruel3 It makes me really happy that people outside the area care enough about the pupfish to try making up for the locals :)
Obviously it evolved more quickly than those who you were arguing with...
Caitlin, no, how could you made me love the pupfish and then tell me they are dying. I'm not emotionally strong enough for this rn
She actually said that over 100 were born last year in a man made tank.
I'll never understand the disregard so many people have for the natural world. This video is great!
especially cos we depend on it. it's like they dont get it until their hair's on fire 🤦♀️
@@justathumb and sometimes they don’t get it even then.
You do understand that disregard, it's what you do every time you buy a piece of candy, every time you shower 10 minutes longer than usual.. that time you wanted to feel extra warm on a cold winter day and turned up the heat. All of that has repercussions for everyone, but you prioritized yourself. I do it too, just like the other billion people in the developed world. Small things add up.
@@98Zai we didn't choose the situations we were born into...we're all unwilling participants in a destructive system to some extent or another. comparing our individual abilities to mitigate that on a daily basis, with a willing disregard and a wanton destruction of nature is a pretty different beast.
@@justathumb Well, the wanton destruction of nature in this case is because people wanted whatever they were planning to build. It's exactly the same situation only on different scales. Nature gets destroyed because we pay the people to do it.
This is an excellent video that is so well-researched, produced and put on film. Not only that, but it is, also, clever and creative, and makes one think. Well done!
rolf's voice is killing me lmao
also, fish end up in places like this in a few ways, usually by birds. their eggs can stick to duck and goose legs and be carried to new bodies of water. some species' eggs can survive the bird's digestive system and viable eggs are pooped out!
Thanx for that extremely gross bit of information. Lol. Kool but 😝 gross.
Would that make them poopfish?
@@cindykaye3152 oh no😂
This is so cool !!
😶😲
Does Rolf Hirsch know there's a video on UA-cam where he just gets dragged for twenty-three minutes?
I have to hope so
Is there a way to contact him?
Drinking game: take a shot every time Caitlin says “pupfish”
(Don’t do this. You will die)
I drank an entire pina colada during the runtime of this video. We'll call that good enough, yeah?
That’s 7 shots in the outtro alone
Ok to use water instead of alcohol? Pupfish friendly! Unlike the vomit/chum those kids gave them.
you'd at least get drunk enough to break into devil's hole and murder a pupfish while skinny dipping.
😂
"they are mild mannered, bright blue or olive colored, less than two inches long, biologically unique and" "very beautiful, very powerful"
I'm really glad that they were able to breed the Devil's Hole pupfish in captivity and mimic their habitat perfectly.
“the deepest underwater cave in america”
*that’s what i’m talking about*
Would super salty water even be good for crops?
I appreciate your videos, all the topic of death has always really bothered me. But my mother died on December 11th of this year and I just finds your videos comforting
Caitlin: This video is about a fish... Yes, a fish.
Me, a fish nut who has dozens of tanks and spends all her time watching fish videos: Ummm... 😳
I love fish. I think they are very underrated and overlooked. They are peaceful and lovely. Plus I enjoy getting to know their individual personalities..... Yes, they have personality.
Mood
This is the content I crave!
In Finland we have our own endangerd animal; the Saimaa ringed seal. Although we haven't built houses for the seals, volunteers have made man-made snowdrifts for the seals in low snow winters. We have about 400 individual seals which is such an improvement from the 100-150 from the 80s.
Yay! Good news is worth celebrating. Thanks for sharing this tid bit. 🌈
I recently came across photos of the Saimaa ringed seal on social media, and, I've got to say, they are just the cutest. I wish them nothing but the best and am heartened to hear that conservation efforts are going well!
“Pro-development, pro-business, animal-apathetic” 😅 Sad but true. You can’t embody the first two without the third
Yes you can. It's actually not that difficult. The problem is that it requires a bit of creativity and innovative thinking and, on occasion, that can take a few months longer and cost a dew dollars more at the beginning. For example, there are a lot of "brown sites" -- places that had already at one point been developed but were abandoned or have declined to the point that they're no longer viable for economic activity due to the condition of the buildings. They could easily be razed and redeveloped. Likewise, there are entire neighbourhoods that have decayed to the point that only a minority of the original inhabitants still live there. Those could easily be redeveloped.
@@Bunnyroo7 There is only so much water in the desert. Use it all up, and all will see their demise, I don't care how much you think about it. Great for developers selling land that is destined to be worthless.
It's really neat that they took such effort in preserving the area. - thanks for covering it!
We could do more for the pupfish. We could play some Barry White, set some mood lighting and help them get in the mood.
Some Barry Whitefish, perhaps? (on that note...)
Let’s get it on... Pupfish style!
I really need Caitlin to participate in puppet history! Like how amazing would a some kind of death related episode with her be
The crossover we don't deserve but NEED
Oh my god, yes! That would be so cool!
We gotta make this happen
That would be awesome
I NEED ITT