Animals AI Couldn't Come Up With

I love binturongs. When I worked at the San Diego Zoo, they had a couple there, and they werejust so damn cool. The popcorn thing is soooo strange-but-true.

I love the sound of katydids. Comes from camping from 10-40 years old. It’s very comforting to me.

I hope I’m not too late to share my feedback! 0:54 I think I see the handstanding kangaroo, but it makes more visual sense when the gerenuk photo isn’t upside-down. 1:43: I don’t remember the Narnia books *or* movies having much beyond stock fantasy creatures like fauns, griffins, dragons, and giants. But they would look right at home in the eternal winter of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”. To me, saiga look a lot more like a beast of burden from Star Wars; something from Tatooine in their summer coat; Hoth in the winter. They could pass as a creation of the Jim Henson Company, too. 2:29: Finally some good conservation news! Thank you for that! 3:08: Thanks for teaching me a new genus name! 😁 There’s a closely related genus called Panacanthus whose members don’t have the black markings on the mouthparts that create that optical illusion I never noticed before until you pointed it out (I’ve seen pictures of these katydids before; I just never knew the scientific name), but their legs and head are covered in spines that make them look similarly outlandish when viewed head-on. They’re called thorny devil katydids for obvious reasons. 6:14: That skull is in the wrong section of the video. It’s definitely from an animal with cyclopia and not a Damascus goat skull. 7:17: I laughed out loud at this. 😂 And don’t worry; I never fast-forward. As far as I’m concerned, anyone who comes up with such smooth segues into sponsorships is too great a speaker to skip. 9:50–11:32: I’m probably one of about a dozen people on Earth who has always found star-nosed moles adorable. You did a fantastic job describing them and all their bizarre abilities here. “Cthulhu’s pet” particularly made me chuckle. 10:14: I am so sorry about this, but the proofreader in me won’t let me *not* point out the unnecessary apostrophe in the onscreen text. 11:54: The striped polecat is also called the zorilla, and it has the same nosehair-singing superpower as the more famous musteloid it resembles. 12:51: Cue another literal LOL from me. 🤣 13:27: I am at a loss for words for how perfectly you set up that joke. (Maybe it’s just me, but the fact that you’d used it before somehow made it even better.) 👏👏👏 13:29: Whoa! That’s a civet I’ve definitely never seen before! 🤯 13:31: As much as I love that stunning photo of an African civet (one of my favorite viverrid species), it might make more sense to use a photo of the actual species that poops kopi luak: the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). 13:33: Have you heard about the numerous occasions genets have been recorded riding on the backs of rhinos and Cape buffalo? https://youtu.be/tOMmMXFN6N0?is=1-w9XXJ46huCZ5pQ https://youtube.com/shorts/hcTQNYU8z6w?is=ToDRZyomy8GMfDG6 13:50: Another fun fact: the binturong and the kinkajou are the only carnivorans with prehensile tails. That’s one in Feliformia and one in Caniformia, on opposite sides of the globe. 14:11: Huh. That’s an interesting hypothesis! Binturongs do overlap with tigers across a large portion of their range, although they’re also found in Borneo and Palawan, where tigers have apparently never lived. And while eau de binturong is almost universally compared to popcorn and is even known to be caused by the same chemical compound (2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, or 2-AP), the smell of tiger urine has been described in many different ways. Binturongs also have few natural predators due to their size and arboreality, so it seems doubtful to me that there’d be a strong evolutionary pressure for them to mimic the smell of tigers. I’m guessing it’s just a coincidence. I somehow expected that infamous photo of a telescopefish (y’know, Lindsay Nikole’s “son”) to be included in this lineup, but maybe that’s just because it was in another AI-related animal video I watched just a few days ago. Something I’ve been wanting to tell the world about that photo: that telescopefish is dead AF. There are a *lot* of deep-sea species that have been viewed alive so few times (if ever) that most pictures of them are actually dead pickled specimens temporarily removed from their jars for study and (apparently) photoshoots. Their natural coloration is often partially bleached away by whatever they were preserved in; their fins often appear limp and withered, with tattered membranes between the bony rays; their eyes are pale and glassy; and they may be disfigured in various ways, such as the stomach bulging out of the mouth (a symptom of being brought to the surface too fast), jaws drooping limply from the skull (the reason it was assumed for decades that the goblin shark had a giant pointy nose permanently overhanging a pointy pair of jaws, when in reality those jaws are usually kept neatly retracted, flush with the underside of that snout, and only protrude when the shark bites), or of course the entire body collapsing into a shapeless flabby mass. Cookiecutter sharks, deep-sea hatchetfish, black dragonfish, and the vast majority of deep-sea anglerfish (including footballfish, wolftrap anglers, fanfin seadevils, spiny seadevils, doublespine seadevils, and leftvents)* are all victims of “Blobfish Syndrome”, and most would look a lot less horrific and ugly if we ever saw them alive in their natural environment. *All of the deep-sea anglerfishes in these photos from the Wikipedia page for Ceratoidei are dead specimens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ceratioidea_from_Northeastern_Brazil.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Representatives_of_ceratioid_families.jpg Loved this video! It feels like it’s been a long time since you did a compilation of animals united only by their weirdness, and I really enjoyed it. Here’s hoping for a part two!

Awwwwww, that lil baby binti! I hope that you get enough likes to do a part two now. There's plenty of critters out there for it.

I guess I always was wondering where the name Bearcat came from, lol

Nope. Get that katydid out of here.