- Hi, friends!
Welcome to "Amazing Animals with Eugene." Zoogene.
(elephant trumpets)
Wait, guys, that just came in my brain.
Should I just do that all over again?
Is that the show name?
(test tone)
- Re-roll.
Hey, friends!
Welcome to "Amazing Animals with Zoogene."
(tooth chimes)
[Announcer] A portion of today's video
is sponsored by Neutrogena.
This is the new series where I'm surprised
by an awesome animal and I share interesting facts
about them while I try to keep it together.
Because animals are like my celebrities.
This is like meeting Meryl Streep.
Actually, I'd be very excited to meet Meryl Streep.
These are all my Meryl Streeps.
I'm meeting lots of Meryl Streeps.
All right! Let's meet my new best friend!
♪ Amazing Animal Facts with Zoogene ♪
♪ He's gonna meet an animal and learn about it ♪
♪ And try to tell you facts while he gets distracted ♪
♪ Amazing Animal Facts with Zoogene ♪
(door bangs)
- Oh, hey, I didn't see you there.
Welcome to my home.
I'm just getting ready with Neutrogena
before I meet my new best friend.
Oh, hey Kimba. I didn't see you there.
- [Kimba] Yeah, you did. It's me!
Your actual best friend. What's up with that?
- Oh no, Kim.
I'm not saying he's my new best friend.
It's just, you know, adding to our friend group.
- Okay, buddy. But I'm watching you.
I watch you where you sleep. I'll pee on you, kiddo.
- All right, Kim, you stay out here.
Come on in. Let's get ready.
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Now, let's actually meet my new best friend.
Sorry, Kimmy. Thanks to Neutrogena for sponsoring
that portion of the video.
Now, back to Zoogene!
So, I have no idea who's coming in.
This is my first animal on my new show.
What could it be?
There's been a lot of Evil Eugene lately in the universe
and we wanted to balance things out
and bring you the purest form of Good Eugene.
And that's me with animals.
Oh my God, wait.
Did I hear hooves?
Did you bring me a hoofed animal?
I love hooved animals.
(whispering) Oh my God, what is she doing?
What is it that you've been so big?
(cheerful string music)
(gasps) What is it? Can I look?
(cymbal crash)
(music stops)
- (mouthing words) Are you fucking serious right now?
(laughs)
(whispering) It's a zebra.
It's a zebra.
You brought me a zebra!
How did you get a zebra here?
I've never been this close to a zebra.
Nice to meet you, Crystal.
- [Crystal] Nice to meet you.
- And what's this magnificent creature's name?
- This is Zimba.
- Zimba, I'm Zoogene.
- [Crystal] Whoa. He's just figuring out his space.
- Likewise.
- [Crystal] You need a poop? Is that why you're so antsy?
Terrible thing to switch.
(upbeat music)
- I'm like, at a cotillion. (laughs)
Try not to look like I'm prowling,
but I think that's my natural way of moving.
(upbeat string music)
- [Crystal] Good boy.
- Do you think it's the leopard spots?
Do I look too predatorial? (laughs)
- [Crystal] (laughing) No.
- I'm gonna try to say some animal facts
while I meet my new best friend.
There are three species of zebra, the Grevy's zebra,
the plains zebra, and the mountain zebra.
But there's nothing plain about zebras.
- [Crystal] Zimba is actually a Grant's zebra.
- [Eugene] Oh!
- [Crystal] and he is three years old.
- How long do zebras usually live?
- [Crystal] 20 to thirties.
- Wow!
- [Crystal] Yeah, they have a healthy lifestyle.
- Is this how big a zebra is, on average?
- For a Grant, yeah. He did have to poop.
That's why he's so antsy.
- Oh! Did he- Did he just- - [Crystal] Um...
- [Eugene] I really love how his tail
just went totally straight up right before he pooped.
Zebras are equids, meaning they're
part of the horse family.
How similar are zebras to, say, taking care of a horse?
- The upkeep is pretty similar.
But their temperament and personalities?
Polar opposite. Don't mess with a zebra. (laughs)
- Zebras are wild animals that cannot be domesticated.
They are unpredictable and are known to attack people.
What? Wait, why, why would this fact be included?
So, I have a question.
- [Crystal] Sure.
- Does he know he's absolutely stunning?
- Oh, yeah. He's very spoiled. (giggles)
- [Eugene] A group of zebras is called a dazzle.
Really? A dazzle? That is the most appropriate
herd name I've ever heard.
He's like a walking fashion show.
Hi. Hi, Zimba.
- You wanna pet him?
- I would love to.
- Just give him a hard scratch, so he feels it.
- Oh, okay.
- And he likes it right there on the neck.
- (chuckling) Oh, my God!
- Being very needy about it.
- Hey, bud! Hi.
- Just reach in front of me. There we go.
(Eugene gasps) - [Crystal] He's liking it.
- This is the best day of my life.
(Crystal giggles)
- [Eugene] Zebras can travel long distances.
In Southern Africa, researchers have tracked zebras
traveling 300 miles across Namibia and Botswana.
Right there? (gasps) There you go! Oh!
Is that- Am I getting the itch?
Wow. He's kind of a diva, huh!
(Crystal giggles)
I love it.
He's got such presence and attitude.
I feel like I'm just serving him, now.
(both laugh)
The lead male of a group of zebras... Zebras?
Wait, that's how they say it in the UK, right? Zebra.
The lead male of a group of zebras is called a stallion.
So, Zimba's a stallion. He's a main character.
Real main character energy.
- He doesn't like his ears touched.
- Oh, gotcha. Gotcha. - Yeah.
If you touch him, it has to be the neck.
- Ah, like a cat!
- Yeah. - Yeah.
A big striped gorgeous horse cat.
Did you know while black and white may not seem
like a particularly good option for camouflage,
researchers speculate that may be exactly what it is for.
It has been suggested that zebras bunch together
to confuse colorblind predators
which mistake the stripe pattern as grass.
That's so cool.
Like, the idea that if you group together
with this type of pattern that you just blend into any sort
of tall grassland environment.
I wish I could do that at a bar around my exes.
- [Crystal] (giggling) Okay. I'm gonna circle him out.
- [Eugene] Okay.
May I have this dense, Zimba? Oh, thank you, kind sir.
My card is not yet full.
So, what's his, what's his favorite thing to do?
- Um...
- What's he do- What's he do like on a,
a casual Saturday?
- He eats a lot and he runs around a lot in his pasture.
He's kind of a big needy baby. - Aw!
- So, I try to spend as much time with him as I can.
- You're like his mom.
- Kind of, yeah. (giggles)
- Do you ever call yourself Sufasa?
- No, but maybe I need to start! (giggles)
- [Eugene] Within several minutes of its birth,
a newborn zebra begins to walk. Within just a few hours,
they're capable of running with the rest of the herd.
Within a few hours? Can you imagine if babies could do that?
If you just had your baby and then after three hours
it was just off to college?
Animals are amazing!
What's his diet consist of?
- So, he gets hay. That's his primary diet.
- (drawling) Hay.
- [Crystal] (laughing) But we also supplement it with grain.
- [Eugene] Zebras feed almost entirely on grasses,
but may occasionally eat shrubs, herbs,
twigs, leaves, and bark. Their digestive systems
allow them to subsist on diets of lower nutritional quality
than that necessary for other herbivores.
- [Crystal] He kind of like snacks, too.
Like, you open a bag of chips and he's very into that.
- Same. (chuckles)
I think we can give him a snack, now.
I think he's earned it.
- Once he grabs onto it,
you can just give him the whole thing.
Like you can give it to him with a peel on.
- Peel and all! - Yeah.
- Badass! Zimba, thank you for being so beautiful.
And for sharing this moment with us.
He's like, "I don't care. Give it to me now!"
All right. Here you go, bud.
(upbeat music)
(banana hits floor)
- [Eugene] Don't forget the peel.
- [Crystal] I can get it. - I got it.
(zebra crunches)
(laughs)
That's honestly how I eat when I'm really drunk. (laughs)
Was that good, Zimba? Do you want the peel?
(zebra crunches)
- [Eugene] A zebra's stripes are much like our fingerprints.
No two zebras are the same.
Guys, that's a perfect children's cartoon about- Right?
It's like "CSI: Zebras." It's a show about forensic science.
Zimba is a hardened zebra detective
and there's been a rash of murders in the dazzle.
(jingling, Eugene chuckles)
And the only way he can find them is
he can match the stripes to the right perpetrator.
And it turns out the perpetrator is not a zebra
but a horse wearing a zebra print disguise.
(music suddenly stops)
- [Crystal] I'd watch it. - [Eugene] Right?
"Zimba: Zebra Detective." (laughs)
- [Crystal] That's good, huh?
- Hey, bud. Oh, no more food. Sorry, bud. (laughs)
- [Crystal] That's why we do the food at the end. (giggles)
- [Eugene] I also like banana, Zimba.
It's high in potassium. It's "Banana Facts."
It's not this show.
Thank you so much for bringing Zimba here.
Zimba, thank you so much for being our new best friend.
This has been "Amazing Animals with Zoogene."
Join us next time, where I get to meet
another awesome creature!
And until then, be nice to animals, you (bird screech).
(laughing) That's not the sign-off.
It's a bad sign-off.
Until next time, be kind to animals and one another.
(bird screech)
(Eugene and crew member laugh)
No I'm gonna cut the (bird screech)
but that's a good ending tagline, right?
♪ Amazing Animal Facts with Zoogene ♪
♪ He met an animal and learned about it ♪
♪ And told us facts only got this ♪
- I'm like Jack Hanna!
You sons of (lion roar)
(laughs, claps)