Ten Animals You've Definitely Never Seen Before

You're not gonna believe this, but… …I recognized *all* of these animals! O.O I swear! Here are the first and/or most memorable sources from which I remember learning about them: 1. Bear cuscus: Nature (PBS): "Castaways of Sulawesi" 2. Takin: Nature (PBS): "Pandas of the Sleeping Dragon" 3. Tapir: National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: "Totally Tropical Rain Forest". Also a short documentary of sorts about the Minnesota Zoo (made in the 1980s). The former marked my first time seeing South American tapirs on film; the latter Malayan tapirs. 4. Viscacha: The Animal Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Wildlife (1992) by Barbara Taylor and Kenneth Lilly ...I *think*. This is the one animal for which I can't recall any specific source (though there's definitely at least one book in my personal library with viscacha photos), but I've definitely known about them for a long time, because in my preteens/early teens I used to write stories about a fantasy world inhabited entirely by animals—present-day, prehistoric, and even speculative—and I distinctly remember having an idea (which never got past the concept phase due to me ceasing to write new stories) for three viscacha characters in the role of elemental nature guardians/sages, whose names—Skyler, Orlando, and Chelsea—were all puns on their respective environmental domains. 5. Silky Anteater: Astonishing Animals (2004) by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten 6. Club-winged Manakin: Originally an article on Livescience.com that I can't find anymore. Later on Nature (PBS): "Deep Jungle: New Frontiers" (2005) (It definitely had a segment on manakins in general, at least.) 7. Bilby: A Gap in Nature (2001) by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten (This book on extinct animals featured the lesser bilby, and I learned about the greater bilby by proxy. Also, I don't have any memorable sources, but I knew about bandicoots *long* before I ever heard of the "Crash Bandicoot" video game; and when I did, my first thought was, "That ugly character looks *nothing* like a bandicoot!") 8. Olm: The Animal Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Wildlife (1992) by Barbara Taylor and Kenneth Lilly 9. Brown hyena: Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife (2001) by DK, Smithsonian Institution 10. African civet: National Geographic: "Heart of Africa: Fire and Ice" and "Heart of Africa: Forest Primeval" 11. Tree kangaroo: The Animal Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Wildlife (1992) by Barbara Taylor and Kenneth Lilly

Cuscus for the win🙄☺️

I knew about 3 of the animals presented. The first one that got me was the Tokka or however you spell that goat creature's name.

I squeaked out an unexpected majority with 6 (7 if I count the brown hyena, which I'm sure I've seen, but hadn't specifically identified beyond "hyena"), but that's mostly academic, since I still lost in the first round.

Cuscus got me, i knew it was a marsupial from the look of it but didn't know the name. Silkie Anteater and the Tree Kangaroo got me too. 8/11 doesn't feel too bad though.

Dude, once again, thanks for an educational video. You got me straight out the gate and most of the others, I only know because of your channel. Keep keepin' on.

the bear cuscus annoyed me, because I knew the name, but had no idea what it looked like.

Somehow....the Takin. Strange bruh. My sister once got peed on by a tapir at a petting zoo in the 70s....so they're pretty legend in our fam.

Lost with the Bear CusCus, but actually knew the last two- the tree kangaroo and African Civet

I never even heard of the bear cuscus, the takin, or the club-winged Manakin. I'd heard of the silky anteater before, but I couldn't identify it until you said its name. Honestly, strange as olms may look, I find them freaking adorable, and the fact that people thought they were baby dragons is cute as heck.

ok i lost at the blind salamander. i want a chocolate bilby though. one of my fav natur-vieos are the one of the sciantists getting a picture of a bird that hadent been seen in something 150 years.

I only knew two of them: the takin and the civet (thanks, Zoobooks) But yeah, lost at the bear cuscus, you were right

I don't really do names. I didn't recognize any of them.

Yep, failed with the bear cuscus, right out of the gate. And I'lll just keep to myself how many of the others I didn't know.

I did pretty well. I didn't know, and had to look up, the Bear cuscus, Viscacha, and the Club-winged Manakin. Good list of obscure critters. The Okapi might make the list of critters most people have never heard of, as well as being confusing creatures in their own right. Glad you're doing this. Your videos are super accessible to people who won't/can't sit still to watch regular nature shows. Your passion for nature comes through in the various approaches you take to educating people about the natural world.

the bird got me, but I knew the rest.

I lost at the word go--but, weirdly, was sure it was a marsupial.

Better question would be which ones didn't stump me lol