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by Emily Grassley of the UM zoological museum and also the new YouTube channel
the brain scoop woooh, Emily today is going to try to stop me a couple times and
then we're going to move on to an amazing animal at the end now first we
have what appears to be a skull
I haven't seen it yet facing me it just got put on the table so I don't really
know what's going on
so let's turn it toward shoot this is that help at all to clarify i can also
take this part of ya
can I can I handle it yeah okay well why doesn't have any teeth
wow it's lost a couple will give it that right
but they're all back here hmm
it's very heavy something sturdy
yes and it's an herbivore good
that's all I got so far getting close
let's look at oh I think I might have a gas
you know I have a gas I don't know though cuz i don't really know what
these things look like but I'm going to just would like wild leap and say is a
taper now
oh not if they close at all kind of well it's logically close genetically not so
okay so tapirs are tapers rodents
no tears are actually piercing dactyls there there in this is that they're in
the same order as our rhinos
ok and horses kind of looks like a tapir yeah okay
is it a mob is it a pig
no it's not a pig is it something like a pig mmm not really
I think you're I think you're thinking the wrong kind of environment
how so well is it . live on the land
no yeah maybe it doesn't know
gee it's definitely grinding up
yeah leafy matter yeah you're getting close
you're warmer you're gonna have it but it lives in the ocean
kind of but it walks around you know water
yes yes around in the water yep in the water so it's I don't know i've got i've
gotten so close you are so close
I know when I tell you is it that was not big enough to be a hippo
I music what I may be this big enough to be a hippo yeah it's not a hippo
but it's kind of hippo sized what am I missing
what am I forgetting about it doesn't live on land and water
it only lives in water but it has legs
best digital legs you did I you and he will had me believing that it was
it's a manatee yes
yeah i got there it's a manatee
you had me you had me believing that it had legs up it does have legs it just
doesn't use them to walk on my own the land
it doesn't use them to walk on water I thought manatee a couple of times but I
don't know why I avoided that i don't know i just go with you guys
yeah I think it'd be awesome to be a manatee personally apartment all day
long
pretty much they do fart a lot that is one thing I know about manatees because
you can see the bubbles so you know we're parting
really yeah yeah that's not as cute
and get over it yeah all right well I got there eventually
so we will say stumped but fascinating animal thank you for showing off we have
a second me do a second thing to show off today
I'm this game sometimes I worry that you're gonna run out of weird things
from the museum to show us
I was worried about that too and then our curator just stopped showing me
everything and he's like you'll find it which is awesome for me because i'll
open a locker or something I've never looked in before and then it's like we
have your say
all right but see if you can figure out this one
all right we've got another skull you'd think that it would be a little easier
Oh sometimes just like isn't it obvious
I don't know very much about this stuff
I can see and it's sinuses just think of it with all the fur in the in the
well now you told me it has fur my first impulse but this doesn't seem quite
right is an honor
no not even close no not even close
like totally other side of the animal kingdom i wish i had the bottom half of
the skull I'm going to blame it on that
okay well I actually wasn't I don't know it was it got broken on the scene on
Animal Center pieces are it would eat some kind of vegetation
no time well i got flat molars one of the section it's a bit of misconception
what what are flat morale is good at grinding grinding but not always but not
always a diverse vegetation
are you saying that likes to eat bones no not quite but what is a great thinker
in texture
Oh would you know closer but there are so many animals Emily I know there are a
lot of animals
I know you want me to tell you what it is yeah it's an aardvark skull
oh how the heck neck i was going to get that I don't know I picked up was like
oh yeah this is another apparently what ants
yes thanks for the same texture is similar than the crunchy exoskeleton
they they have to handle it
but yeah we have an aardvark school in our collection and i love it i think
it's also do they have they have long tongues
yeah they do to come out I mean what does that connect on the bottom
yeah suppose you know through the mandible did they have that the big
hyoid which attaches and then in the parks are pretty cool they are the only
animal that consists of their entire order em so that i may add that the
government of them at different road there many species of hard work though
your couple
okay but there's sort of an island genetic island yeah through a little
freaky island there are also thought to be really closely related to things like
elephants in Wales
huh well aardvark
yeah I have a hard time imagining his face you know I see no no no you have a
big bulbous know if they have the big funny ears they're kind of pig shape pig
shaped their picture May no there
yeah it is now it's time for visiting with another amazing animal from animal
wonders
ah we're going to get to see ya some reptiles
we have with us now Jessie from animal wonders what do we have for us now we
have blueberry the Blue Tongue skink
this is blueberry she doesn't look very blue on the outside not on the outside
he has a trick up her sleeve how do you make her there is
yeah she has a blue tongue
yeah why why do you want to play tag attached to it now
she has a blue tongue actually helped her survive
she's going to use that time to kind of faked out anyone that might want to eat
her
I would think that will just attract attention well in the animal world
bright colors mean danger warning
something's wrong with this animal usually poisonous so by having that blue
tongue
she's pretending that she's poisonous but she's not poisonous is not she would
be totally delicious
she would what makes her even more delicious is this tale that it is a
gorgeous to you that is a gorgeous tail
she uses this as her second like her backup protection in case that animal is
not tricked by the blue tongue
she's gonna turn around and try and run away well her legs are quite short so
she's not going to get very far very fast
what that animal is most likely going to grab onto that tail so she can let go of
that tail
she's I think conscious just like like going to the bathroom kind of like I
just got it
I tell me I'm or dare - dad and there was a little bit so that they're there
is a requirement for the predator to be pulling a little bit
yeah yeah it will bleed but it will stop its mates top row real fast and she'll
grow that back within about a year
granite she find enough food because it uses her building refrigerator
that's your energy storage back there so out where where could you find one of
these things in Australia actually and she would be found in northern Australia
that's the color she is that pattern there is going to be the northern
species
so why exactly are her legs so incredibly sure it's an abuse it yeah
like that and not very effective like she is you have you trying to be a snake
she's also working on her way there yeah they'd actually there longer than
actually just getting her way because she does like to burrow down into holes
and other small crevices on the ground
so she had really long legs they just get in the way ok she actually has
another really neat thing about her back legs there if she were going into a hole
to escape someone of something trying to eat her
and also she came face to face with maybe a snake she it couldn't turn
around because it's pretty small hole
so she can take these back legs and flip them a hundred degrees and run
it's fast backwards and she can forward Emily now really wish to see that I
skeleton
you know I've been thinking about how that you know proximal end of the femur
fits into the helium but i can check that out
well we're very thank you very much for coming in today we will have to see you
thank you no thank you for joining us on this episode of the scishow talk show
Emily thank you for joining us as well
thank you it was very fun time is the best time
yeah bye-bye