[Music]
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
