It's so rare nowadays to find content that makes you feel proud of being a human, instead of shaming you for being one

People don't believe me when I say humans are 'designed' to run. We are amazing runners, and everyone has the ability to if they trained. Humans were able to catch prey due to our endurance and ability to span difficult terrain.

The greatest human trait is our wonder. " I wonder what happens if I....." That phrase has changed the world.

Humans are such fascinating creatures, i wonder what it must feel like to be one

We think of animals that have freakishly extreme adaptations; like cheetahs and giraffes; but we've taken brains to that extreme level of adaptation. One of the reasons human childbirth is so difficult is the size of babies brains. And they're still born so early they are utterly helpless. We literally have 'bet the farm' on brains.

Hello fellow humans.

People severely underestimate how massive an evolutionary advantage sweating actually is and how persistent and industrious it allows us to be.

As a long distance hiker I've always been amazed at what my fellow hikers and I can do. I've done 63 miles in 21 hours (100 km), I have one friend who managed 72 in 24 hrs. Two other friends who completed a Triple Crown ( Appalachian Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Pacific Crest Trail) in 8 months. They averaged 45 miles a day on trail. It's pretty incredible what the human body can do.

Almost drowned twice in my life. Once I jumped into a place called Blue Hole in a local river. It was a large deep clear spot in an otherwise dry river. I decided to go to the bottom as it looked close. It wasn't. I was fit then too and could hold my breath underwater across a large public pool at the time. But this was deeper than it looked and near the bottom I realized my breath was gone and started up. On the way I was forced to release my breath and I was only half way up. I wanted SO bad to breath in and almost did but would have drowned so I just kept going and calmed myself and started a better faster yet easier non panic way of swimming up. Made it ...barely. Scared the crap out of me. Never tried that again.

I work at a lithium mining project in the Andes at 4500 m of altitude. I've been doing it for years and still get some headaches the first day when I get there. It's amazing all the hard work the locals can do without even sweating, when I try doing half of what they do I end up panting like a race dog in a heat wave. But if I go to Buenos Aires at sea level and play a football game felt like I had the endurance of a semi pro. That's neat.

One of the greatest Canadian heroes was Terry Fox. He tried to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research after cancer took his leg. He averaged almost a marathon a day for 143 days on one leg, before his cancer came back and he was forced to quit halfway. Truly a legend.

And yet by far the most impressive fact about humans is how good we are at endurance running. It's just insane that we can run for days on end and still be fine. Endurance hunting was a big part of our evolution, you run after your prey until it can't walk anymore and then kill it. Some tribe in Africa still do it

I live in Colorado at 6,000 ft above sea level, where the oxygen is just 16 percent but I've never felt physically strained or short of breath because of it. I only realized how different it was when my friends from Missouri couldn't keep up when we went running the first day before they adjusted. It just goes to show how incredibly adaptable our bodies are for different environments!

Run everyday for two weeks. The first 5 days, you'll feel like you're dying. It'll get easier after that. By the two week point, you'll likely be able to do the same run that made your lungs burn while just straining above resting heart rate. It's an amazing feeling.

I remember listening to an NPR broadcast that covered human perspiration being our most powerful physiological advantage over ALL other animals. Our sweat system allows us to be capable of running for hours, and scientists believe that early humans would literally chase prey until it became so exhausted it couldn't flee or fight anymore. Healthy human athletes *can* run for greater distances without stopping than horses. Indigenous Americans of the Hope tribe cover over 100 miles per day on foot.

It's massively underrated how important the human foot is to our entire body and mechanics. The most advanced piece of technology ever put in a shoe, is the human foot. It's a dense complex of different connective tissues, muscles, and nerves with an incredible amount of articulation, sensitivity, and reactivity. The way our entire body works is like a house of cards balanced on top of the functions that our feet perform, severing our foot's connection to the ground and letting it atrophy and degenerate inside the shoes most people use are a massive reason we start losing mobility and getting pains.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the benefits (especially as they pertain to our origins in Africa) of humans' ability to sweat! We are perhaps the best sweaters of the animal kingdom-if I remember correctly, horses are the closest competitors to us in this field. It's sweating that truly makes us elite runners (although obviously bipedalism, foot shape/joint setup, and other factors contribute). The ability of a human to run 26.2 miles in under two hours is perhaps one of the greatest distance feats in natural history!

"It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength which his body is capable of." ~ Socrates

I got a chuckle out of the academics thinking that early spears were too heavy to be thrown effectively, then being corrected by javelin throwers throwing them 50+ meters

One thing people often overlook about humans when comparing to other animals is our acrobatic ability. While there are some animals that obviously have much more power in their jump, good luck finding an animal that can do a 60 foot gainer off a cliff into perfect water entry, to say nothing of gymnastics routines on springboard floors, or a precision side flip onto a 10 inch ledge. Peak human aerial prowess is undefeated.

As a person that walks all day for their job (15,000+ steps a day) I can attest that human endurance is incredibly efficient, and so easy? Like I went from 1,000 steps a day to 15,000, and after only two weeks of my feet hurting I got used to it. Humans are incredible!!

What staggered me about Peruvians was that while we were hiking and acclimatising along the Inca Trail, they were clearing up everything; packing our gear; striking camp; flying past us, carrying all the gear; getting to camp, setting up and preparing meals and then, while they were waiting for us, they were playing football! Different breed of people altogether! Superhuman!

One thing that blew my mind was reading about what happens to the human body in space, with blood pressure dropping because it no longer needs to compensate for gravity. Just think about that--we can adapt to conditions that no creature on Earth has ever experienced!

Don’t forget the greatest adaptation, a beautiful singing voice. Music is the heart and soul of being human.

one more thing to note about the swimming thing is that, out of most of the sports humans engage in, swimming seems to be the one least likely to cause injury. throwing, running, jumping, shot putting, weight lifting and so on all put strain on the body in ways it doesn't seem to be built to handle, often leading to injuries if performed incorrectly and even with proper technique, the risks persist. the act of swimming however almost never puts stresses on our bodies that we are not built to handle, so much so that swimming is often recommended as an exercise to people who are recovering from injuries, suffering from chronic ailments and the elderly, once someone has learned how to swim on even the most basic level, and they avoid exhaustion and hypothermia, there is almost no way to injure yourself doing it.

a group of humans with a couple tools is probably the most terrifying thing to encounter as another animal.

The thing about humans is that while we may not be the BEST at a lot of things, we're GOOD at just about everything. We're the ultimate generalists. No other animal has the broad physical skill set, sensory reception, environmental tolerances and overall adaptability that we do.

Glory to Mankind

One of the biggest takeaways I got from my studies of the human body are that we are the single greatest organism for exploring, adapting to, and manipulating the environment around us. If you are ever feeling down, just know that you are the pinnacle of evolution. Go humans!

6:16 This dive reflex is also very effective at interrupting panic attacks. Because the dive reflex slows the heart rate and reduces oxygen usage, it counteracts a racing heart and hyperventilation. This works because panic attacks are usually self-perpetuating; the symptoms of it, like racing heart, lightheadedness, palpitations, shortness of breath, tingling in the extremities, etc, can cause the person experiencing them to feel even more anxious.

This was a really well put together video. Well done and Thank You.

I was acquaintances with a member of the Sherpa people who moved to my part of America, which is at sea level. He once mentioned that the elevation change gave him headaches for some time, because there was *too much* available oxygen in the air! He was always a happy, motivated man. Polite too! I recall fondly the time he explained to me and some of my fellows that his first name was the same as many of his people because in Sherpa culture you're named based on the day of the week you were born on. And it's funny, looking at the footage of the Sherpa man that aided the first Everest climbers, what stands out to me is that he looked strikingly similar to the man I knew, closer to family resemblance than "ethnic features" of large demographics. We stopped interacting much when I changed jobs, but I still see him around sometimes, and I'm happy to've known him. Now I can appreciate that brief bond even more, knowing the man was a bonafide evolutionary marvel on top of just being a cool dude from a cool culture!

I honestly love hearing about humans so much. They way human bodies are so well suited to so many variations in the environment in the world makes them so impressive to me. Truly fascinating. I love it every time humans are discussed and talked about in a positive way, it reminds me that not everything about humans is like they portray in media.

fun fact, us humans can smell "wetness" or the smell of rain multiple times better than sharks can smell blood in water, which is weird but yeah we can do that

actually cows have only one stomach split into four separate compartments :)

I've heard one of the big reasons we have flexible wrists was due to clubs. To properly wield a weapon like that we needed more elastic wrist ligaments, which contributed to our abilities in using tools and weapons.

A pretty interesting and unique feature of us Humans (as well as most primates) is our ability to sweat. While our early ancestors hunted, they surely couldn't keep up with their prey in speed, but as their prey grew tired from miles and miles of continuous evasion, our early ancestors would be seen still giving chase, their sweat keeping them cool and allowing them to simply keep running as their prey fell to exhaustion.

Our brain is currently learning about things that our brains are controlling.

Excellent video! As a nature lover, I love learning about the incredible capacities of non-human animals, but it’s refreshing to hear about our own incredible capacities from an evolutionary standpoint.

I’m actually so excited they made one on humans. I just started picking up languages, learning new hobbies, mastering and discovering myself, so I’m excited to watch this.

I always tell people long long treks to not be afraid of the woods. "You are a human, you are one of the biggest and scariest animals walking on the planet right now. Unless there is a bear around, in which case you got to just lie a bit and make the bear think you are bigger."

The investigation and edition of the video are amazing.

Check out the Tour de France. Sure the speed is multiplied by the bicycle but if you listen to Mohoric who won stage 19, you get the idea we are totally overpowered when it comes to endurance. The ability to suffer this kind of cardiovascular intensity will make any prey give up and beg us to bludgeon and eat it.

It's not only the power of human throws, but also their accuracy. While a lot of apes and monkeys can throw and hit at a short distance, it is far more "hit or miss" than humans. Even small children can be pretty accurate in their throws. Human hand-eye-coordination (is this how you say it in English?) is incredibly good and basically necessary for crafting early tools, too. Another point humans excel in - compared to other mammals at least - is communication. We are on par with (or even better than) song birds, with accurate means to give knowledge to other people around us. Humans do have an incredible voice range, both in tone and sound, but we almost never think about it. And given we've lost a lot of non-verbal communication (fur, tails, ears) we have evolved more nuanced facial expressions in turn - as dogs did, to, interestingly enough.

Tbh I think it's our brains & our ability to learn & be creative/inventive that makes us so incredible. That's what helped us adapt, survive & be able to live on all corners of the world. Without the ability to learn & nurture our young, we wouldn't be where we are: humans aren't born with innate ability to know to speak a language, how to use tools, how to function in society, how to build structures etc.

Loved the narration and visuals.

Really enjoyed this one!! ⭐️ Nice Work!

I think the biggest thing that drives humans forwards is our intelligence. It gives us the capability to not only work together but everyone can come up with their own unique ideas. Other animals work together, but not nearly at the same level of coordination that humans have managed to do it. If you really think about it society is just a massive ant hill where everyone does their part to make it work.

What, no "the ability to run marathons and longer distances" or "the opposable thumb"? The two most significant evolutionary advantages that allowed the species to survive.

What an awestriking video. This must be very high on the list of best videos I've ever seen on youtube, not even joking. Thank you for such good content hope you keep making similar videos

Super awesome info...thanks for sharing such valuable knowledge :)

I'll add some more: Our hands. Without talking about how using our brains we devised and crafted stuff that allows us to walk on other worlds, human hands are just awesome. Even without being super smart, anyone can train their hands to pull off incredibly neat tricks of pure precision and grace. Juggling, spinning sticks around, there even exist people who juggle flaming sticks!! Butterfly knifes, zippos, drum sticks, all sorts of hypnotizing moves we can pull off. There are other animals who can hold stuff. Most mammals reptiles and birds can hold stuff with their mouths and beaks, but you already know how that always ends up. Some animals can hold objects with their feet, like parrots for instance. Have you seen a parrot handle an object? Yeah it's cool, but it's not awesome. Compared to the most incompetent healthy humans, parrots holding stuff with their feet are incredibly clumsy. Have you seen a chimp or an orangutan hold objects? I've seen a chimp use a stick to get termites from a colony and slurp them up. They too are incredibly clumsy, compared with a human. No offence intended. It's just the way it is. For a healthy human to maneuver their hands like a chimp, they need to be sedated, drunk or intoxicated in some other way. I believe it's because chimp's wrists aren't as versatile as ours. Walking. We may not be the fastest, but we are some of the most persistent walkers and joggers on the planet. We are on par with other land migrating animals. Yeah, most animals can run faster than us, but most animals can only run for a few seconds before they need to stop and rest for a a few more seconds before running again. Imagine an antelope or a zebra. They spot a couple of humans jogging towards them looking all dangerous. Hah. They're so slow. Losers. The antelope quickly runs away many times faster than the humans. But then the antelope gets tired. So it rests for a few seconds. And during that time the humans start catching up. Shit. The antelope runs again. Way faster than humans. Then rests again. The humans are still jogging. Have they even ever stopped? Their mouths are closed, are they even breathing? The antelope runs again. It'd muscles start to ache. It needs to rest again. Humans are still jogging. This has been going on for at least 20 minutes now. Fuck. Those damn hungry things keep chasing the antelope. Same pace. They don't even look fazed by the chase. An hour later, the antelope is demolished by running all the time. Although it has always been faster than the humans, they constantly chase it. Jogging. Not even sprinting. They are really not that fast. Those darn monsters. They aren't even panting. They look unfazed. The antelope collapses to the ground. The monsters constantly behind it catch up. Collapsed. Tired. Traumatized. The hopeless antelope accepts death from the relentless hunters. Always behind it. Always chasing. Always there. Dude, we humans are hecking terrifying. There are some humans that still hunt like this today. Obviously there's also our intelligence. We humans are like the wildcard of humanity. Yeah we're not the fastest. We're not the strongest. We're not the biggest. But hell, we're the smartest, and we're stronger than most. Bigger than most. Faster than most. And thanks to that, we have adapted to practically every environment on the surface of the planet. The only ones we haven't colonized yet are Antarctica and the bottom of the ocean, and I am absolutely sure that's just a matter of time until we reach those places and colonize them too.

Yes we’re all humans here and definitely NOT ants in trench coats

The deep diving people also have an anatomical ability to not get decompression sickness from repeat deep diving.. I'd love to know more about that

I love those videos. Thank you Stephanie !

The spear thrower like the one used at 4:35 was probably developed as soon as we started throwing spears at animals, as a way to extend our reach, and it was probably the reason we evolved a better throwing physiology. It was the premiere hunting weapon for thousands of year until we eradicated the woolly mammoth and started using a more accurate weapon, the bow and arrow, for smaller and faster animals.

We are incredible lucky. More so to be born and live in our current time. There's NEVER been a better time to be alive! I am incredibly grateful to be here with all of you!

Fantastically educating and entertaining video! Bravo!!

This Video is so so so good! I watched it numerous times by now.

I wish you touched down on the population of Kenya's village of Itan! Located 2,400m above sea level in Rift Valley, this small village is where the world's best distance runners come from. They have the longest leg to torso ratio. Also their legs are oval shaped rather than circle shaped if seen from a cross section from above. This makes them more aerodynamic! I studied them for years while I was ultra-running for Nike!

Body: "Hey Brain, here are all the amazing tools (organs) at your disposal to do stuff". Brain: "Thank you. Rest them all well, I think I will do all the work myself and I have this computer thing to help me."

Great video to use in my Science lesson around Biology.

Excellent video! New subscriber from me :) I was half expecting to see our ability to mimic sounds in here, but I guess that's not an athletic feat so that makes sense.

The whole thing about breathing is fascinating to me because I have a GSD V. I always thought I was weak due to short breath and muscle pain in almost any activity. And yeah, in my teenage years and in consequence my rebellion period. I was walking a lot outside of my house. Yes, it was exhausting at the begging but I realised that my muscles weren't all shrunken and didn't coused me pain. So I pushed with it... A lot. Like 10 kilometers daily. Day by day I was less and less exhausted by just walking, then i started running, and my god. Was this trully terryfing. I couldn't just run from the house like 20 meters before my organism stared choking like I was underwater. And thank to God my father is a musician because somewhere during that time he started to teach me play on brass instruments. For those who are unaware - they require both great breathing habit and using diaphragm instead of lungs. Basically lower part of your body instead of upper part. It was so weird that I could play like 3 hours without a sweat, but not run. I couldn't hold my lungs in place, but I could use my diaphragm. I was breathing slowly, like one breath per 20 meters. I pushed to the point where I could spend much more time doing slow exhales and being breathless that inhaling. I'm 27 right now and both this desease and constant fatigue are almost not existing to me because of this. Just breathing. Yeah, my doctor was shocked as well when he found out that I'm just going out in kilemeters long walks and runs like it's nothing, working 8 hours like normal person without fainting and just living a normal life. For anyone having it as well, I hope you will find strength to push through this

You guys come up with the biggest of surprises. Wasn’t expecting to see an Insane Biology outlook on us. Kudos to you!

a simple explanation for the effective oxygen portion of the video is that we use atmospheric pressure to push the oxygen across the border of our lungs and into our bloodstream. During high altitudes there is less pressure to push that oxygen across, so we therefore receive less oxygen with every breath. its not that there is less oxygen, just we aren't able to use it. When climbing mount Everest there are a couple things you can do to "fix" this: go down the mountain as there is more pressure down there, oxygen tanks which basically throw as much oxygen as it can at your lungs in the hopes that enough makes it through, pressure chambers which people experiencing hypoxia (lower than normal oxygen, also called altitude sickness) are placed in so that the body can absorb sufficient oxygen, and blood transfusion (i think). Fun fact for those who bothered to read through. during the climb once you enter above the 8000-meter mark, the climbers are literally dying this zone has been named the death zone for this reason.

Very nice and inspiring presentation, thanks 👍👍

Another ability just as if not more unique than these is lactose persistence i.e. the ability to digest milk in adulthood. Peoples from the British Isles, Northern and Central Europe, Indian states of Punjab and Haryana along with some pastoralist communities in the Middle East and Africa have the highest proportion of this adaptation.

I use the divers reflex to help counteract episodes of tachycardia I sometimes experience. It truly does help, instantly reduces your heart rate upon the face submerging in water. That tends to help my heart retrigger normal electrical activity.

three things I tell myself: 1. there's always room for improvement 2. question everything, even yourself 3. change is the only constant

no way im a human , the only things im good at are , procrastinating , overthinking in circles , thinking im a smart guy , when in fact i am just a burnt out dude with many fears and anxieties 💀

To give further perspective, the human hand, with its precision grip is incredibly crucial to human development. Humans are mostly upright spiders. We are basically hands adorned with hands. Our strength may be lower, but our grappling precision is unmatched.

So humans are basically the personification of a 'jack of all trades' but in a weirdly good way.

I was born and raised in Italy, in a city whose average altitude is below 400m. Now, since 2012 I live in the Andes, at an altitude of 2500m. I had some initial problems, but now I can run more than 100m quite fast or walk long distances. The max altitude I was exposed to, right after I got here, was around 5000m, it was quite hard, but I did it. I'm not sure if my asian dna (I'm half japanese) helps in this matter. According to the video, it doesn't since my father and his parents come from a town on the coast. On the other hand, a few weeks ago, I tried holding my breath in a pool, a few hundred meters above sea level, as a kid I could hold my breath for more than a minute, now it's quite less than that.

My favorite adaptation is the evolution of the 40hr white collar work week

The human body is amazing. I had a physiology professor talk at me and some friends once about how the human hand, wrist and arm have evolved with melee combat in mind. Hmm.

_"Let me tell you about humans, using something I'm familiar with in anthropology. When a Shoshone warrior wants a pony, he goes to a herd, picks one, and walks toward it. Naturally, the pony runs away. The Shonone follows, day and night just walking, usually for three full days. Pony runs away, man just keeps walking at a steady pace. Finally the pony simply collapses from exhaustion after running away for days, and the man walks up and puts a bridle on it. That is the kind of monster humans are"._

Growing up nearly always in the water in southern Louisiana, it's hard for me to imagine not being able to hold my breath for 5 minutes.

throwing accurately , cooking , long distance endurance running , etc combined with our propensity for rational/critical thinking , yep , humans are amazing creatures indeed XD ; big fan of the aquatic ape theory ; another banger video RS , stay awesome =]

I've always had a pretty solid throwing arm, a good throwing arm is often a good swinging arm. The amount of damage humans are able to inflict with handheld weapons is unreal. Just think of a lumberjack splitting rounds of oak with a maul. I don't think there is an animal on the planet that could rival our amazing swing.

Finally you are covering the top-tier animal on this planet.

It's always a gamble going into a video like this. Is it going to be science or silliness? Are they actually going to get into the nitty-gritty of things or are they going to repeat headlines. THIS is the kind of content that will keep me coming back. Fabulous detail, the visual support was more than just stock footage, it was actually often illustrative of the point. I especially love that the visuals were used as quasi-footnotes, showing the title of scientific papers. Thanks! My only correction is that it is "exostoses" not "extoses"

thank you thank you thank you for linking your references 🙇✨

Crazy that all I could think of during that intro about animals being physically gifted was how I’ve never seen a pack of lions form a phalanx

As an ultra endurance human with a high hgb to hct ratio, this video is so interesting to me. One thing left out however, is the human trait of perspiration. It's what gives us humans one of the best endurance capabilities in the animal kingdom, not a lot of mammals perspire like us humans.

amazing video i was stunned

Thank you for including all the people

The spear is not just a throwing weapon. Its also a very capable melee weapon, one of the best in fact.

The ability to train at a task until we've amplified our ability at that task - become an athlete - is itself uniquely human. What other species dedicates itself to lifting weights, or expanding its physical repertoire beyond all practical purpose like gymnastics or dancing or the triple-jump or pole-vaulting?

The ability to throw. My respect for Zeke in AoT gone up and up

Watching this while eating breakfast made me... unusually calm. 10/10 Narrator, I guess.

Running and sweating which are the most impressive were left out. Hope there is a part 2 and also add on the ability of how our brain works and how fast it can process and interpret information.

Just want to make a correction! The fastest motion a human can make is not throwing but rather snapping. The kinetic energy stored before the sound creates the fastest motion that the human body can do. Sci Show has a fascinating video on it!

Back in 2010 I was bulimic, went from 110kg(242,5lbs) to 66kg(145,5lbs) in 3 months, ate once every 3 or 4 days, and when I ate, always threw up on purpose, I was 18 years old, yet it was the time I felt the strongest and had more stamina and energy in my life, despite being skin and bones, I was working with dad, he rented scaffolding to various constructions and since he was already 60 years old, I was the one who always loaded and unloaded the scaffolding for him, I once made a calculation based on the weight of each piece of scaffolding, I carried between 4 and 5 tons of weight on a daily basis from 8 am to 6 pm, monday to friday, and after work always went out with my girlfriend at the time or my friends, after coming back home still had energy to play a couple of hours on the computer then I went to sleep, by the way, I was already a smoker at the time, I still get baffled when I think about it, how the heck I never collapsed, never even felt tired, all because... I felt good with how I looked(at the time, nowadays I look at my pictures from that time and holy crap, I looked terrible when I was extremely skinny, I might not be tall, 1,75m/5'9", but the ideal weight for my corporal build is 85kg/187,4lbs, which thankfully is what I weight nowadays despite having a little bit of a beer belly haha), the only explanation I can think of if that I took many physical atributes from my late grandfather from my mother's side, and everybody always tells me stories of how insanely strong he was even in his late 60s, I never witnessed his feats of strenght myself but, i'm nearly identical to him, only taller and way less overweight(he was extremely obese since I can remember to the day he passed, in 2015, miss you a lot grandpa), but we are both, I mean, I am and he was, very broad, with large but discrete muscles(you know when you are very muscular but you aren't "ripped"?), and I don't even work out often, I like to swim way more than to work out, i'd say if it were possible to share images on comments i'd show you guys a picture of me of that time, but I wouldn't wanna give anyone nightmares with spooky skeletons haha(to makes matters worse I used to dye my hair bright red during that time, wth was wrong with me? how did I even had a girlfriend during all that craziness?! and no, never did any drugs besides cigarettes and alcohol, most precisely beer, here the legal drinking age is 18 but I drank since I was 15 and I smoke since I was 13, I feel so sorry for my parents during my teenage years...)

I didn’t know so many people had problems with altitude sickness. I’m from the Netherlands and hike in the Alps a few times each year yet never encountered problems, even when climbing 3700m peaks.

back in the 90s when I was a kid, i remember asking my oldest brother, already an adult in college, what the most dangerous animal was, thinking that it would be a shark or some snake with super venom... my brother said " you want to know what the most dangerous animal is?" he looked down at me, knelt and looked into my eyes and said "Man."

Just wanted to tell you, that over the last year you've become by far my most favourite channel on this website. I've been on youtube for over 13 years now, but not a single channel managed to grab my attention and curiosity in the way you do. I've watched every video on your channel several times and they are always a pleasure to experience. The way you narrate, the accompanying videos and the way you treat your audience are pretty much unrivaled for me. I truly hope you never stop. These videos made me so interested in biology and natural sciences that I've decided to study biology this year. Thank you. You rock!

Another excellent episode! Thanks!

This is the equivalent of me watching a review of a product I've already bought

Most people like to point at animals with 5 times our bodysize to argue that we humans are weak. Remember we were a threat to mother nature before discovering fire when we were just using toothpicks for spears. Just because we aren't the best species that doesn't mean we were harmless, housecats are a perfect example of how something small and cute can actually be an dangerous predator in the wild.