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Natural World Explored
Ben the Quasi-Ecologist
17 episodes
5 days ago
Welcome to Natural Curiosity, a show by the creators of The Natural World Explored. We challenge each other to learn new fascinating tidbits about the natural world and share them with you! We also share audio form episodes of our Natural World Explored videos, where we explore particular animals, behaviours and other jazz that calls this planet home. Stay curious, friends.
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Welcome to Natural Curiosity, a show by the creators of The Natural World Explored. We challenge each other to learn new fascinating tidbits about the natural world and share them with you! We also share audio form episodes of our Natural World Explored videos, where we explore particular animals, behaviours and other jazz that calls this planet home. Stay curious, friends.
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Natural World Explored
There Are New Giraffes. Why?

Hey friends! Today Ben breaks the news of why there are so many Giraffes now??? We look at the Panther family and why ducks are slowly all becoming the same animal.Want to support Giraffe conservation? Donate to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation here:https://giraffeconservation.org/Official IUCN release on new Giraffe species:https://iucn.org/press-release/202508/four-giraffe-species-officially-recognised-major-conservation-reclassification ••••• Your host: Ben the Quasi-Ecologist ••••• Looking to support the channel? Take a look at our support channels to help us make even more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w/join Or my patreon page! https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• More of a listener? Listen to episodes on the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cRfbTpBSTEmYLww9BeoQA Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/natural-world-explored/id1789911559 ••••• Been exploring for new merch? Check out the Explored website! https://naturalworldexplored.com ••••• Audio Credits: Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi ••••• 00:00 Breaking News 20:09 Natural World Explored 03:06 I. Not All Names Are Built The Same 07:13 II. This Goes All The Way To The Top13:08 III. The Next Generaffion#giraffe #animals #science #learning #education #explored #nature


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1 month ago
17 minutes 55 seconds

Natural World Explored
You Won't Believe What T-Rex Looks Like Now!

Hey friends! Today Ben clicks on the wrong type of ad, we learn all about scaley lips and dive into the hot topic of dinosaur temperatures.More about how we know the colour of dinosaurs:https://youtu.be/c0PYvIP0Tmw••••• Your host: Ben the Quasi-Ecologist••••• Looking to support the channel? Take a look at our support channels to help us make even more videos:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w/join Or my patreon page!https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me!••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored••••• More of a listener?Check out our podcast:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cRfbTpBSTEmYLww9BeoQAApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/natural-world-explored/id1789911559••••• Been exploring for new merch? Check out the Explored website!https://naturalworldexplored.com••••• Audio Credits:Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi••••• 00:00 You Won't Believe!00:53 Natural World Explored02:28 I. Dinosaurs Are What?!04:07 II. Lip Reading06:36 III. Unfeatherable Controversy08:36 IV. Hot Topic10:59 She's A Runner, She's A T-Rack Star#dinosaur #jurassicworld #jurassicpark #trex #nature #wildlife #animal #extinctanimals


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1 month ago
16 minutes 3 seconds

Natural World Explored
What Happens When You Find An Extinct Animal... Alive?

Hey friends! Today Ben explores what extinction actually means, how we know when an animal is truly gone and what happens when we decide to change things...More about Convergent Evolution and how it works:https://youtu.be/c0PYvIP0Tmw••••• Your host: Ben the Quasi-Ecologist••••• Looking to support the channel? Take a look at our support channels to help us make even more videos:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w/join Or my patreon page!https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me!••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored••••• Been exploring for new merch? Check out the Explored website!https://naturalworldexplored.com••••• Audio Credits:Intro Music by Aakash GandhiImage Credits:Ghost Lineages by Sceptic view - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42413712Alavesia Fly images:Alavesia leukoprosopa, holotype. A. Wing (abbreviations following Cumming and Wood, 2017). B. Postpedicel and stylus. C. Hind leg, inner lateral view. D. Hind tibia, dorsal view, with tibial organ on basal fourth. Arrow point basal R1 sensorial pit.Monoplacophora image:By FunkMonk (Michael B. H.) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19794861Iberian IbexBy Juan Lacruz - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23442996Celia the Pyrenean IbexBy Jose Miguel Pintor Ortego - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46509145••••• 00:00 The Year Is 186101:15 The Mystery Is A Foot02:40 I. The Case Of The Midnight Cockatoo06:50 II. The Curious Case Of The Coelacanth10:36 III. The Convergent Case Of The Aldabra Rail13:36 IV. The Unfortunate Case Of The Pyrenean Ibex#animals #wildlife #nature #documentary #science #biotechnology #aldabra #extinction


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6 months ago
21 minutes 1 second

Natural World Explored
How Other Animals Use Medicine

Hey friends! Today Ben talks about a famous great ape, we meet the biggest very small army in the world, and some Madagascan primates that enjoy a nice millipede in the morning.••••• Your host: Ben the Quasi-Ecologist••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my YouTube Membership!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w/join Or my patreon page!https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me!••••• Been exploring for new merch or a sick profile pic? Check out the Explored website!https://naturalworldexplored.com••••• Audio Credits:Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi•••••

#nature #medicine #animals #documentary #wildlife #science #education #facts

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9 months ago
20 minutes 24 seconds

Natural World Explored
How Turtles Unlock Memories They Didn't Know They Had

Hey friends! Today Ben talks about magnets, we learn about the smell of raindrops on footpaths, and we follow a Sea Turtle all the way home!


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Audio Credits:

Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi


Also Sprach Zarathustra, composed by Richard Strauss and premiered in 1896. Link to license:

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Sources mentioned:


Boyle, A. (2023). Episodic memory in animals: Optimism, kind scepticism and pluralism. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory (Chapter 9).

https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=s4V0EAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT224#v=onepage&q&f=false


Rattenborg, N.C. & Martinez-Gonzalez, D. (2011). A bird-brain view of episodic memory.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432811002191



Hofer, M. K., Collins, H. K., Whillans, A. V., & Chen, F. S. (2018). Olfactory cues from romantic partners and strangers influence women’s responses to stress. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000110

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GEOMAR, Coastal Upwelling Diagram. https://www.geomar.de/en/discover/ocean-and-climate/climate-change-in-the-ocean/upwelling


The Ocean Cleanup, Turtle trapped in garbage: https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/


Cleanhub, Great Pacific Garbage Patch: https://blog.cleanhub.com/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-how-marine-plastic-impacts-our-biggest-ocean


Planet Earth II, BBC:

https://cms.bbcearth.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/2ecmt0000001000.jpg

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/12/12/09/turtles-planet-earth.jpg?width=1200&height=630&fit=crop


Barbados Sea Turtle Project, Hawksbill Rum:

https://www.hawksbillrum.co.uk/news/barbados-sea-turtle-project

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#animal #turtle #migration #memory #science #wildlife #documentary #reptile

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10 months ago
14 minutes 50 seconds

Natural World Explored
What It Takes To Be The Fastest Animal Alive

Hey friends! Today Ben looks at the fastest animals on Earth, we get the first ever metabolic rate tier list [not clickbati!!!] and Ben tries to put together the hardest soundtrack of any animal video on YouTube.

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Audio Credits

Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi

Voiceover Editing by Wojciech B.


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Sources mentioned:

Domenici, P., Wilson, A. D. M., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Marras, S., Herbert-Read, J. E., Steffensen, J. F., Krause, S., Viblanc, P. E., Couillaud, P., & Krause, J. (2016). Maximum swimming speeds of sailfish and three other large marine predatory fish species. Biology Open, 5(10), 1415-1419. https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/5/10/1415/1485/Maximum-swimming-speeds-of-sailfish-and-three#:~:text=URL%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.biologists.com%2Fbio%2Farticle%2F5%2F10%2F1415%2F1485%2FMaximumKing,


R. (2008, May). Falling with the falcon. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/falling-with-the-falcon-7491768/Queen's University, Belfast. (2013, September 5).


New insight into how Cheetahs catch their prey. ScienceDaily.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130905085644.htm


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Proprioception scan 1: https://neurosciencenews.com/proprioception-genetics-22044/ Proprioception scan 2: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.29.501977v1.full

Peregrine Falcon scan: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Peregrine-falcon-radiography-Ventrodorsal-A-and-lateral-B-radiographic-view-showing_fig1_349169490

Football boots: Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash

Ford Focus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008_Ford_Focus_Zetec_TD_109_1.6_Front.jpg


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10 months ago
15 minutes 12 seconds

Natural World Explored
How Animals Clone Themselves

Hey friends! Today Ben introduces his clone, Qen, we meet an entirely female species of lizard and take a closer look at how chromosomes work IN TURKEYS.


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Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi

Audio Editing by Wojciech B.

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Photo credits

Science News Article:

https://centennial.societyforscience.org/entry/1997-science-news-reports-on-dolly-the-sheep/


‘Sister Clones’ of Dolly The Sheep:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/26/487047575/clone-sisters-of-dolly-the-sheep-are-healthy-alive-and-kicking


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10 months ago
14 minutes 8 seconds

Natural World Explored
The Search For The Elusive African Unicorn

Hey friends! Today Ben explores a different kind of video, we take a look at the largest elusive creature on the planet, and we understand how our political world can affect the lives of animals. OKAPI CONSERVATION PROJECT: https://www.okapiconservation.org/ CONTENT WARNING This video contains discussions around invasion, colonisation and very brief mention of acts of violence on both people and wildlife. Become a YouTube Member! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w?sub_confirmation=1 ••••• Your host: Ben Cooper, the quasi-ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my YouTube Membership! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w/join And my patreon page! https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for some sweet nature merch? You can score some here soon! https://naturalworldexplored.com ••••• Audio Credits Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi Voiceover Editing by Wojciech B. ••••• Photo credits Persepolis https://amazingiran.media/persepolis/ Okapi Tongue, photo by Kaelin https://www.flickr.com/photos/32277757@N00/4579417976 #okapi #nature #documentary #animal #earth #explore #africa


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10 months ago
15 minutes 8 seconds

Natural World Explored
Why We Need Gross Animals

Hey friends! Today Ben explores the world of yucky things, we hear about how a book can ruin an animal’s reputation, and discover that we betrayed our nearest and dearest :(


CONTENT WARNING

This video contains discussions around death and decay in the animal kingdom. These topics are not portrayed as gruesome, but as biological processes.


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Audio Credits

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Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi

Voiceover Editing by Wojciech B.

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Egmont Overture by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200069

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Photo credits

Tube Nosed Bat

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/101006-papua-new-guinea-species-tube-nosed-bat-science-animal-pictures

Rufous Horseshoe Bat

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Rhinolophus_rouxii.jpg


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10 months ago
14 minutes 54 seconds

Natural World Explored
How We Unlocked The Colours Of Dinosaurs

Hey friends! Today Ben explores the world of colour, we hear about how confusing feathers are, and discover that Polar Bears are FREAKIN IMPOSTERS. ••••• Your host: Ben Cooper, the quasi-ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my YouTube Membership! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w/join Or my patreon page! https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for some sweet nature merch? You can score some here soon! https://naturalworldexplored.com Audio Credits ••••• Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi Audio Editing by Wojciech B. ••••• Photo credits Photonic Crystals Diagram: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Introduction-to-Photonic-Crystals-%3A-Bloch-%E2%80%99-s-%2C-%2C-%28-Johnson/5fad2dacf3b86b2748e5910f1ea64be1ebec2936/figure/3 Photonic Glass Diagram: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Anisotropic-photonic-glass-APG-is-fabricated-in-the-bulk-of-the-glass-by-direct-laser_fig1_310823471 Bragg Reflectors Diagram: https://www.batop.de/information/r_Bragg.html Diffraction Gratings Diagram: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/University_Physics_%28OpenStax%29/University_Physics_III_-_Optics_and_Modern_Physics_%28OpenStax%29/04%3A_Diffraction/4.05%3A_Diffraction_Gratings Quasi-crystal Diagram: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Geometric-structure-of-the-Tsai-type-quasicrystal-QC-and-approximant-crystal-AC-1_fig1_318197452 Thin film interference: https://physics.highpoint.edu/~jregester/potl/Waves/InterferenceColors/interfcolors.html Ref Fabbri, Matteo; Wiemann, Jasmina; Manucci, Fabio; Briggs, Derek E. G. (2020). "Three-dimensional soft tissue preservation revealed in the skin of a non-avian dinosaur". Palaeontology. 63 (2): 185–193. doi:10.1111/pala.12470 #science #nature #animal #dinosaur #evolution #wildlife #explore #earth


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10 months ago
15 minutes 12 seconds

Natural World Explored
How To Build The Largest Animal Ever

Hey friends! Today Ben explores a big blue beast, we hear all about why bugs are little (thankfully), and take a little trip through space and time. ••••• Your host: Ben Cooper, the quasi-ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my patreon page! https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for some sweet nature merch? You can score some here: https://naturalworldexplored.com Credits ••••• Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi Audio Editing by Wojciech B. ••••• #nature #explore #animal #nz #whale #newzealand #evolution #wildlife #bird #dinosaur #science


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10 months ago
15 minutes 30 seconds

Natural World Explored
How Birds Conquered New Zealand

Hey friends! Today Ben explores the last land of dinosaurs, finds a continent that isn’t as dangerous as it sounds and finds out why there are different birds on top of Venezuelan mountains. Donate to Forest & Bird: https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/ ••••• Your host: Ben Cooper, the quasi-ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my patreon page! https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for some sweet nature merch? You can score some here: https://naturalworldexplored.com Credits ••••• Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi Audio Editing by Wojciech B. ••••• Photos used: Kukenan Tepui by Paulo Fassina https://flic.kr/p/7V4UEk #nature #explore #animal #nz #australia #newzealand #southamerica #evolution #wildlife #bird #dinosaur


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10 months ago
14 minutes 20 seconds

Natural World Explored
Humans Aren't The Only Animals That Farm

Hello friends! Today Ben explores the world of agriculture, we find a new crab that shimmies in the deep sea, and meet an ant that drugs other bugs. ••••• Your host: Ben Cooper, the quasi-ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for some sweet nature merch? You can score some here: https://naturalworldexplored.com ••••• Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi ••••• #nature #explore #animals #science #documentary


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10 months ago
14 minutes 1 second

Natural World Explored
How Poison and Venom Actually Works

Hello and bienvenue, today Ben explores the invisible ways to die, looks at all the different ways plants, animals and fungi mix chemical concoctions and learns what to do if you’re exposed to toxins. •• CONTENT WARNING •• This video contains relatively graphic descriptions of bodily harm caused by plants, animals and fungi. Content may be disturbing. What to do if you’re bitten by a snake (CDC): https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/snakes/symptoms.html ••••• Your host: Ben Cooper, the quasi-ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for some sweet nature merch? You can score some here: https://naturalworldexplored.com Credits ••••• Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi ••••• Portrait of the king of Pontus Mithridates VI as Heracles. Marble, Roman imperial period (1st century). Photo by Sting: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Mithridates_VI_Louvre.jpg Gympie-Gympie photograph by Hugh Campbell: https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/gympie-gympie-2048x1204.jpghttps://www.australiangeographic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/gympie-gympie-2048x1204.jpg Gympie-Gympie photograph by TreeHugger: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aeaJIRBbzNU/WUO0HT67MQI/AAAAAAAAIu0/SvCl3IevO7QlKuR6uCKDH5CodjcIyC8KACEwYBhgL/s1600/gympie-gympie-stinging-tree-5.jpg.650x0_q70_crop-smart.jpg Strychnos in Flower photograph by Bart Wursten: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Strychnos_usambarensis00.jpg #nature #explore #snake #spider #poison #venom #toxins #crime #danger


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10 months ago
14 minutes 47 seconds

Natural World Explored
Why There Are Two Pandas

ey friends! Today Ben explores two animals with the same name, we find out that there are more than one type of thumb and meet a few critters that are unexpectedly related to these animals. Donate to the Red Panda Network: https://redpandanetwork.org/ Donate to the World Wildlife Fund: https://wwf.panda.org/support_wwf/ ••••• Your host: Ben Cooper, the quasi-ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my patreon page! https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for some sweet nature merch? You can score some here: https://naturalworldexplored.com

Credits ••••• Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi Audio Editing by Wojciech B. ••••• Study of mammalian mitochondrial genomes for todays game: Hassanin, A.; Veron, G.; Ropiquet, A.; van Vuuren, B. J.; Lécu, A.; Goodman, S. M.; Haider, J.; Nguyen, T. T. (2021). "Evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria) inferred from mitochondrial genomes"

Other papers: Groves, C. (2021). "The taxonomy and phylogeny of Ailurus". In Glatston, A. R. (ed.). Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda (Second ed.). London: Academic Press. pp. 95–117. ISBN 978-0-12-823753-3 O'Brien, S.J.; Nash, W.G.; Wildt, D.E.; Bush, M.E. & Benveniste, R.E. (1985). "A molecular solution to the riddle of the giant panda's phylogeny". Nature. 317 (6033): 140–144. Bibcode:1985Natur.317..140O. doi:10.1038/317140a0. PMID 4033795. S2CID 4352629 Photos used: Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E.; Cuvier, F. (1824) Histoire naturelle des mammifères : avec des figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'aprèsdes animaux vivans https://archive.org/details/HistoirenaturelVGeof/page/LII/mode/2up Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda (2008) Image URL: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kungfupanda/images/2/25/Vlcsnap2011040213h54m20.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1920?cb=20130323171021 Sounds used: Red Panda Sound Effect | Ailurus fulgens (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsqNWQtB1ac&ab_channel=77%E9%9F%B3%E6%95%88 Videos used: Red Panda Scared by Big Piece of Rock - Red Panda goes Crazy - Crazy - Crazy -Crazy !! (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI6ULnKkHus&ab_channel=BESTFUNNYVIDEOEVER-BFVE Pandas trying to make themselves extinct - Funny fails compilation (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf-IQyL7qPE&ab_channel=AnimalShorts #nature #explore #science #documentary #animals #panda #redpanda

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Welcome to Natural Curiosity, a show by the creators of The Natural World Explored. We challenge each other to learn new fascinating tidbits about the natural world and share them with you! We also share audio form episodes of our Natural World Explored videos, where we explore particular animals, behaviours and other jazz that calls this planet home. Stay curious, friends.