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@HassanMohamed-rm1cb

Ай бұрын

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZread Videos all about the 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ Phylogeny Group Of Rodents 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

@HassanMohamed-rm1cb

Ай бұрын

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZread Videos all about the 🦔 Phylogeny Group Of Insectivores 🦔 (Insectivora), such as Shrews, Moles, Hedgehogs, Solenodons, Gymnures, Moonrats, Desmans, the Extinct West Indian Shrews, Etc. on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

@Freckledkid69

Ай бұрын

Wich is better bark scorpion or bowhead whale

@youkofoxy

Ай бұрын

Have you looked into the wind powered machine faster than the wind? It works because of the angle.

@NicholasMati

Ай бұрын

Hi Clint. Thanks for prefacing your explanation of dynamic soaring with something to the effect of "I'm not sure," but you might want to consider reaching out to people who would know (e.g. university professors) prior to releasing an explanation. You had some correct elements and some not-so-correct elements in the explanation. Also, the difference in distance between the top and bottom of an airfoil is one of the standard myths / mis-explanations for where lift comes from. To establish a bit of credibility, I've been working as an aerospace engineer for almost 10 years now. I'm mostly doing motor control these days, but I got my masters from the University of Colorado at Boulder doing computational fluid dynamics in the aerospace department. I'm not an expert on dynamic soaring, but I'm familiar with the basics and governing equations. Because I can't draw fancy diagrams in the KZread comments, consider a simplified scenario where the bird is flying into the screen at vx = +V with lateral winds of vy = +V_wind above the origin and vy = -V_wind below the origin. I'll try my best at ASCII art: x ---> V_wind × ----->y | > V_wind) which will create a large lift vector that will accelerate it in the direction of the wind. After a while, let's say that it reaches a lateral velocity of vy = +V_wind, i.e. it is moving right with the same speed as the wind such that there's no additional angle of attack or lift. If the bird then rolls to -90° and drop down below the origin where air is moving to the left, it will suddenly experience an extra angle of attack of 2V_wind/V and accelerate rapidly to the left until it is traveling at the same speed as that air. If it then trades a bit of kinetic energy to climb back above the origin where the air is moving to the right and rolls to +90°, it will once again experience an angle of attack of 2V_wind/V and accelerate to the right. This sets up a series of forces that push the bird around in a closed loop (well, helical-ish pattern since it's also still moving forward at velocity V). To overcome drag and keep V roughly constant, recall that lift acts perpendicular to the wind. However, the relative wind is not directly along the x-axis. Instead, it is angled "down" relative to the bird equal to the extra angle of attack seen by the bird. That is, 2V_wind/V when it first crosses the shear layer, decreasing to 0 as the bird accelerates to the same lateral speed as the wind. That angle also means that the lift vector is tilted forward in the same way that the lift vector was tilted forward in your kestrel example. If the tilt is large enough and the lift vector big enough, the component of the lift vector along the +x-axis will average out to the average drag experienced during the maneuver and the cycle can continue indefinitely with no energy injected by the bird. Instead, the energy is coming from the bird's lift vector slowing whatever air it happens to be acting on towards 0 speed. There's also an alternate and equally valid explanation based off of energy. The lift vector acts perpendicular to the direction of relative wind. If you define a coordinate system that is traveling with a body of air such that there is no wind, then the lift vector is perpendicular to the direction of motion and contributes no energy gain or loss to the bird IN THAT COORDINATE SYSTEM. In the above example, the bird would be traveling forward with a velocity vector of (V, 0, 0) prior to crossing the shear layer. However, after crossing the shear layer, it would have a velocity vector of (V, ±2V_wind/V, 0) relative to the new local wind-fixed coordinate frame. As long as it stays in a region where the wind velocity is 0 relative to this new coordinate system, it can use its lift vector to losslessly (neglecting induced drag) rotate the velocity vector wherever it wants (e.g. forward to create a new relative velocity vector of (√(V^2 + 4V_wind²/V²), 0, 0)). Transitioning to the other side of the shear layer causes the process to repeat. Your doorstop analogy is not relevant / wrong. In general, the bird will always be moving forward with a roughly constant airspeed of V. Any increases in drag will just require the lift vector to be bigger and/or to tilt forward more.

Nah. It’s highlander rules. The new penguins survived the last elimination round, so the title is rightfully theirs.

@Ladieboogie527

Ай бұрын

For now… “Low sea ice in Antarctica has caused a "catastrophic breeding failure" for penguins. In 2023, 14 of the 66 emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica lost some or all of their chicks due to sea ice breakup. Satellite imagery suggests that no chicks from four out of five colonies in the Bellinghausen Sea appear to have survived in 2022.”

@onlyfrog

Ай бұрын

​@@Ladieboogie527oh no :(((((

@Ciurk

28 күн бұрын

@@Ladieboogie527 who gets the next title

@user-zj8uc2hl5h

28 күн бұрын

@@Ciurk Penguinz0 obviously

@mryes413

24 күн бұрын

​@Ladieboogie527 I was told in 2004 that the polar ice caps would be gone by 2020, yet they are still here.

please be click bait

@bhuggins6059

Ай бұрын

Nope, just auks I think

@miquelescribanoivars5049

Ай бұрын

*Honks* In great auk.

@HeavyTF2real

Ай бұрын

It is, he’s referring to Pinguinnis impennis, the Great Auk, a flightless seabird related to puffins

@GTSE2005

Ай бұрын

It's technically not, the penguins that we know of are named after the extinct great auk which is a completely unrelated bird

@Totalinternalreflection

Ай бұрын

It basically is

You remind me of my younger self who would tell other kids "That's not a bug! Only a specific group of insects are true bugs!"

@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking

27 күн бұрын

I had constant impulse to do things like that. But: I knew it would get me beat up, with my lunch money stolen.

@kitkatboard

23 күн бұрын

That's called being autistic (I should know)

@ginger-ale7818

18 күн бұрын

I have beef with whatever taxonomists fault that is. In common use, bug is either equivalent to insect, or a polyphyletic group including all terrestrial arthropods. Any definition of bug that excludes both ants and beetles is clearly incorrect and must have been created by a man whose only priority was fueling pedants. (If anyone can find me his name, that’d be great. I cannot figure out who did this)

@noway8259

14 күн бұрын

@@ginger-ale7818 Keep in mind linguistic drift.

@jaschabull2365

13 күн бұрын

I was just having saying that A Bug's Life doesn't have any characters who are actual bugs. I was responded with the usual eye-roll, ha ha!

OG Penguins: go extinct Nature: Penguins 2! The sequel!

@stuchly1

20 күн бұрын

Keep in mind the oldest fossils of "false penguins" (genus Waimanu) come from the very early tertiary period at around 62 million years ago. No idea how old the auk lineage is, but this discovery alone puts the time where "false penguins" split off from other tube noses at some time in the cretaceous. Again. No idea about the history of the auks or their relatives but I wouldn't be surprised if it came to light eventually that the "false penguins" did it first. 😅 Edit: the reason why I'm saying all this is the earliest fossil 'false penguins' (i.e. spheniscids) we have looked recognizable as themselves, members of that lineage, so they would have been doing the penguin thing we are familiar with at that time already, distinctly different from other sea birds.

@daviddimitrov3696

20 күн бұрын

@stuchly1 ah so it's possible my joke falls apart 😅

Penguins may be extinct, but peng-wings are doing okay

@eertikrux666

Ай бұрын

Must be Beneficial Cucumber’s favorite bird

@thisiscole

Ай бұрын

SHH! 4546B hasn't been discovered yet!

@chelsea5378

Ай бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of this

@TheWoodler

Ай бұрын

Ah yes, Bendydick Cumberbund

@ricebeansrockroll882

Ай бұрын

Thank god, I was worried we lost the pennlings

Clint. We all know your "short list of favorite of all birds" essentially is "whatever birds I am thinking of at this moment." 😂

@ominous-omnipresent-they

Ай бұрын

Aves are indeed a magnificent class of dinosaurs.

@ianaliciaperry5243

Ай бұрын

Definitely relatable lol

@ZhovtoBlakytniy

Ай бұрын

He loves all the animals and you can tell 😊

@isray89

Ай бұрын

I mean, that's not wrong... lol

@jackkrell4238

Ай бұрын

@@ominous-omnipresent-they The roughly 10,056 extant species of Neornithes are indeed "egg-scellent" "dino-soars."

I love a good ramble. You, sir, are a master of it. Was 20 minutes in and went "This has nothing to do with penguins, but I will *absolutely* be watching it all."

@HoztileMANIkyn

26 күн бұрын

@@pliktl seconded

Passive-Aggressively giving every unit possible for your measurements is one of the funniest things I've seen.

"because of witchcraft" is also how I describe weird physics things as a biologist 😂

@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural

29 күн бұрын

Turbocharging

@AK-jt9gx

27 күн бұрын

Same, I actually used the phrase “voodoo magic” to explain some tech I didn’t understand in a presentation to my fellow biologists at work the other day… lol

"unlike peacocks, false penguins are nobility." Ahh. Usurpers...

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x

Ай бұрын

Constant attire consisting of a tuxedo with tailcoat should give it away. Also many wear golden bowties and gold bling.

@masterzoroark6664

Ай бұрын

Ok, Anthro Bird Hitman where you play as a penguin assassin

Using so many different and unhinged measurement systems for the size of the penguins is such a nice, subtle addition

I just love how these videos randomly expose us to random bits of information...like different measuring systems. Also, I would love to see you cover hummingbirds. So many of them visit my yard, and watching their sassy territorial attitudes brings me joy.

@jpe1

Ай бұрын

I now have a new favorite way to describe the fighting between “my” female Ruby-throated hummingbirds: “sassy territorial attitude.” I love it, such a vividly descriptive expression, thank you!

I appreciate that you gave the penguin's length in Planck lengths. That's very helpful.

@hart-of-gold

Ай бұрын

The only true measure based on our physical reality.

@M0053yfate

Ай бұрын

​@@hart-of-goldand Stone ofc

@mutsyti

Ай бұрын

@@hart-of-gold lightyears

@JubioHDX

Ай бұрын

@@mutsyti lightyears technically arent always consistent anyway outside of a vacuum. Light can be slowed down if traveling through certain mediums

@mutsyti

Ай бұрын

@@JubioHDX The measurement of a light year refers to how far light travels in a year in a vacuum. The speed of light is what gets affected by mediums, not the length of a light year.

Way back when people didn't wear suits, I hope they still looked at penguins and said "whoa that's a cool bird"

6:28 Ah yes, the most convenient unit to measure a penguins height, AU and parsecs this is so funny lol

6:30 - As someone who prefers speed in furlongs per fortnight, I could not stop laughing at your penguin length and mass conversation tables. Well done!

I like this way of doing the measurements, it's less clunky and even lets me, someone who exclusively weighs things in solar masses and measures length in cubits, understand the sizes

@AaronCoakley

Ай бұрын

the SI units was really throwing me off, too.... I prefer units like the mass of King George's wisdom tooth

As soon as you mentioned "perpetual motion" my very first thought was "This isn't a closed system. The wind is providing the energy to keep the dinosaur aloft"

@5721porter

Ай бұрын

This guy physics

@anniesama5729

Ай бұрын

👏 You put into words what I could only intuitively think.

@deinauge7894

Ай бұрын

yes, it alternates between layers of different wind speed, in such a way that there is always a big enough relative speed between the bird and the air. This way the wind can do work on the bird. No perpetual motion machine needed :)

@clockworkkirlia7475

Ай бұрын

"This isn't a closed system. The wind is providing the energy to keep the dinosaur aloft" Heeheehee, this sentence makes me giggle with joy.

@DJFracus

Ай бұрын

Well it would be easy to assume that the wind pushing you downwind is canceled out by the the wind pushing against you headwind. Only reason this isn't the case is differences in how aerodynamic the bird is from the front and the back.

This channel will never be complete without a vid about barnacles, but I won’t mind if you delay that moment.

39 barley corns tall? You're killing me! Hilarious.

Lmao. Okay, you got me when you started to use lightyears as a height unit for the birds 😂

@Ditidos

Ай бұрын

Planck length/mass too. Hilarious.

@kendallguier1378

Ай бұрын

Lol wasn't expecting the full lean. Cracked me up

@isray89

Ай бұрын

I was partial to the atomic radii myself!

Clint, your communication skills and wit are second to none.

@ClintsReptiles

Ай бұрын

Thank you. That's very kind of you to say. I'm very excited to have the opportunity to share this kind of content with you guys!

@Mephilis78

Ай бұрын

Second to one.

@conlon4332

Ай бұрын

@@Mephilis78 Who then?

one of my (many) favorite things about this channel is that the titles/thumbnails can be so click baity, but in a GOOD way. there is no lie here... it's true - but as someone who lives under a rock, y'all had me going for a minute there 😂 PS i prefer things be spoken rather than on screen as i usually just listen to these, but visuals would probably be nicer for those HoH

No idea why the algorithm randomly showed me this video about ornithology, but I'm kind of glad it did

Did I wake up today thinking I'd know the relative mass of an emperor penguin and the sun? No. Am I glad I do now? Yes.

Hey Clint! Aerospace engineer here, about to be a pedant about your explanation of airfoils. Bernoulli's Principle only applies when there is no friction or inertia within the fluid, i.e., the air has no viscosity. That assumption actually makes it impossible for an airfoil to generate lift, because a perfectly inviscid fluid will always wrap completely around the airfoil, even the sharp trailing edge, such that a pressure differential never forms. Airfoils actually generate lift specifically because real fluids are viscous and, instead of wrapping around the trailing edge, curve to follow the chord of the wing, creating a vortex that ultimately induces an upward force on the wing. Now I usually deal with the "space" side rather than the "aero" side of my field, so I don't have a ready explanation for how the kestrel was able to hover in place, but your differential drag explanation for dynamic soaring makes sense to me. Either that, or birds have really powerful farts.

@Sarcasticron

Ай бұрын

What a great explanation, thank you!

@dranorter

Ай бұрын

There's a cool post by mathematician Terence Tao that I think matches well with the albatross' behavior. Just search "Terence Tao sailing against the wind faster than the wind". The albatross is using the lower-altitude air the same way Tao suggests using the water, IE, putting the airfoil into it only half the time.

@mandowarrior123

Ай бұрын

In both sailing and aircraft I recommend to treat them as deflecting surfaces and vector exchange. Up until a stall that's what they do. And vectors help you understand how you can travel much faster than wind with wind power alone. Essentially you fly perpendicular to the wind, using their minimal side drag and turning as much of that force into perpendicular motion, keeping the relative wind speed as high as possible. Hence it can fly up to 80 mph 'for free' It's a little similar to a solar sail if you're into that kind of thing, or gravity assists. It slows the wind down in exchange for its energy, if you'd like to work it backwards.

@NelsonBrown

Ай бұрын

Like the parents at the zoo when the kid asks if this bird is more related to a gull or a (false) penguin, it would be better for Clint to say "I don't understand dynamic soaring." Also, that's not how aerospace engineers say "Pitot" - Henri Pitot was French.

@napoleonfeanor

Ай бұрын

Clint is still the bigger pedant

How you did your measurements with a multitude of accurate but obscure and unknown measurements was amazing absolutely enjoyed the work that went into it

Also, loved your units of measurements, really helped clarify things for me! 😊😂

To answer your question about Albatrosses (in an over simplfied manner because this is quite literally rocket science): While wind speed increases at higher altitude, the actual energy of the wind doesn't change. The cost of the higher speed is lower inertia, which allows the energy to be transferred far more easily. As the Albatross gains altitude the wind pushes on it more. While this causes it to lose velocity, it also gains lift. This pushes the albatross higher into even faster moving air. Eventually, the energy gained from lift starts to become not greater then the energy lost due to drag, and the Albatross tilts its wings and dives. This turns the potential energy it gained from the wind pushing it into the air into kinetic energy, which is more than enough to overcome the drag of the lower velocity, higher inertia wind closer to the ocean that is far worse at transferring its energy to the albatross to slow it down. Eventually, the drag costs the Albatross enough velocity that it begins the loop again, allowing it to maintain essentially the same amount of energy that it started out with. The Albatross also has a similar method (that is even more efficient) for flying cross wind, and of course doesn't need any particular help for flying with a tailwind. So the only real problem comes from flying with no wind at all, but that doesn't really happen on the ocean. While Doldrums are a thing, they exist because the heat of the sun is causing the air to move rapidly vertically, which is not nearly as much of an issue for an Albatross as it is for a sail boat.

@FireMageTheSorcerer

27 күн бұрын

So it's a bit like going down a slide and climbing up the ladder again?

@MrPestkranker

27 күн бұрын

​@@FireMageTheSorcerer Yes, pretty much. The climb up just costs as much energy as sliding down

@mollydelacy9007

10 күн бұрын

I just think about how airplanes stay aloft. I feel like it very similar in that for a plane that's already flying but losing altitude, it first needs to go nose down, to receive more inertia in order to go back up or to receive lift, which slows a plane down. Then its able to maintain and ride on the air current like a glider works the same way as well. Hot air↓→Cold air↑→around and around it goes.

Wait so when albatross fly, they are functionally doing the same thing as a player with an Elytra in Minecraft? Also "Serial monogamous like Leonardo DiCaprio" was so understated but also so damn funny that I spit out my tea.

@starlight0313

Ай бұрын

how chronically minecraft nerd am I when I immediately knew what you were talking about

@Starhunter1975

Ай бұрын

Was thinking the same thing. The only problem is the elytra is named after the hard set of wings beetles have. Which is why you look like a bug when you squat in game.

@chrisbarnes2882

Ай бұрын

Makes me wish there was more wind in mario64, maybe inject mario with the wing cap into pilot wings64. Thats the closest to understanding dynamic soaring as i can imagine.

@griffinmckenzie7203

Ай бұрын

​​@@starlight0313 The term elytra has been around a lot longer than Minecraft. Lol

@scruncheduppaper4828

Ай бұрын

WAIT OHHHH

I absolutely love and appreciate all your thoughts and work on this and other subjects. I can't provide any useful ones but you sir, are the epitome of a great teacher and videographer. Deeper into to subject than most science based documentaries, but from a sensible and understandable perspective. Wherever you come from and whoever your role models, hat's off to them, and to you! Keep up the excellence. ❤

Absolutely loved this, the shade thrown people mixing up austral Storm-Petrels and Albatrosses combined with top-notch facts made this fun to watch. My vote for next group is Apodiformes! Side note - I use the username Apod in a lot of places and so far no one has successfully made the connection to some of my favorite birds, the Hummingbirds.

Penguins are not only extinct, they have one of the saddest extinction stories ever! Even more tragic than the Dodo or the American passenger pigeon (which went from multiple billions to extinct in like fifty years). Here's an example of part of the extinction story for the Great auk from wikipedia: "On the islet of Stac an Armin, St. Kilda, Scotland, in July 1840, the last great auk seen in Britain was caught and killed. Three men from St. Kilda caught a single "garefowl", noticing its little wings and the large white spot on its head. They tied it up and kept it alive for three days, until a large storm arose. Believing that the bird was a witch and was causing the storm, they then killed it by beating it with a stick." And this is what happened to the last breeding couple known to exist: "The last colony of great auks lived on Geirfuglasker (the "Great Auk Rock") off Iceland. This islet was a volcanic rock surrounded by cliffs that made it inaccessible to humans, but in 1830, the islet submerged after a volcanic eruption, and the birds moved to the nearby island of Eldey, which was accessible from a single side. When the colony initially was discovered in 1835, nearly fifty birds were present. Museums, desiring the skins of the great auk for preservation and display, quickly began collecting birds from the colony. The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 June 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot." And there is even the personal account of Sigurður, who described how he strangled the last one.

@johnathanmartin1504

Ай бұрын

Man, why are humans so prone to superstition? Also why did those three idiots not realize that if the thing you captured had magic powers, you wouldn't have been able to capture it? I like smart humans but the stupid ones really piss me off.

@Ladieboogie527

Ай бұрын

And the animals we think of as penguins are facing extinction too. “Low sea ice in Antarctica has caused a "catastrophic breeding failure" for penguins. In 2023, 14 of the 66 emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica lost some or all of their chicks due to sea ice breakup. Satellite imagery suggests that no chicks from four out of five colonies in the Bellinghausen Sea appear to have survived in 2022.”

@kaiyakershaw1028

Ай бұрын

I understand the need to post this for urgency of changing human behavior but this was a terribly depressing comment. 😭

@clockworkkirlia7475

Ай бұрын

"desiring the skins of the great auk for preservation and display" That... that really hurts to read. It's so frustrating! Gah!

@onlyfrog

Ай бұрын

that was utterly despicable.

Funnily, in French, auks are called penguins & false penguins are called lame/ limpy.

@Bob-nc5hz

Ай бұрын

Technically not all the auks, the alcidae family is sometimes called Alques, but it's not a term in common use. "Pingouins" only covers the great auk (grand pingouin) and the razorbill or lesser auk (petit pingouin). Which aren't even in the same genus (resp. Pinguinus and Alca). And the little auk (genus Alle) is not a "pingouin".

@PhinClio

Ай бұрын

@@Bob-nc5hz#NotAllAuks

@Oscar97o

Ай бұрын

"Pingouin" specifically refers to razorbills, which are the closest living relatives of the great auk. People still call pengins "pingouin" despite their real French name being "manchot" though.

@rosiebowers1671

Ай бұрын

Manchot doesn’t mean lame or limpy dude, it means armless

@goldensloth7

Ай бұрын

@@rosiebowers1671 or one handed

clint getting into explaining different animals is something I didn't expect but o so amazing :D

"Boy, do I feel like a dodo now!" -- P.N. Gwynne

So basically, the OG penguin is not a penguin

@DasAntiNaziBroetchen

Ай бұрын

Did they fix that flaw with the Gen. 2 penguin?

@KurNorock

Ай бұрын

No. The OG penguin is a true penguin and it is now extinct. All the penguins we have now are not true penguins.

@AnnoyingNewsletters

Ай бұрын

Wasn't OG Penguin 🐧 around 6 feet tall?

@apophisxo4480

Ай бұрын

The OG penguin was the Great auk. The "false" penguins were called penguins because they looked like the great auk, but are actually not closely related. The great auk is now extinct because we hunted them, and the only penguins still around are the false ones.

@mechwarrior13

Ай бұрын

​@@DasAntiNaziBroetchenthat what i thought their names were before the internet hahaha

Clint, my friend, your interpretation of why that kestrel can hover in place is CLOSE, but does not quite earn the tobacco-leaf implement of phallicity. Please consider this: 1. As the bird's wing generates lift from the wind, especially because it's cambered instead of flat-bottomed or symmetric (kudos for the graphic mentioning cambered airfoils), it generates slightly TOO MUCH lift, so that the bird should rise. 2. The bird therefore "dives" slightly, bleeding off that extra upward energy. 3. That "dive" converts the extra lift into FORWARD thrust, enough to hold it in place. This is why it's not a perpetual motion falconid: It is generating forward thrust by "diving" to remain level, when the wind is generating too much lift and it should rise. But IT IS NOT BERNOULLI. Well, not primarily. Falconids like kestrels hovering are taking advantage primarily of lift generated by Newton's Third Law, NOT the Bernoulli principle. The kestrel's wing generates lift more because the airflow around its cambered wing pushes air downward than because of air-pressure lift via Bernoulli, which contributes but is far less powerful. The coanda effect is part of this Newtonian thrust, pulling air downward on the trailing edge of the upper and lower surfaces, so that the air comes off the back of the wing with downward momentum. Think of it as being like a rocket or jet, the downward flow of air creating an equal and opposite upward thrust on the bird's wing. a. Bernoulli's Principle is the most intuitive explanation for the main source of lift for the Wright flyer/biplanes. b. Newton's Third is the dominant force for procellariiformes like Albatross, and falconidae like kestrels, and is completely different from Bernoulli, though that's a minor player in this situation. c. Kutta-Joukowski Theorem best describes lift in modern, highs-speed jet aircraft. It's a formulation of lift via circulation around the wing, rather than pressure-differential calculations. post scriptum: That not-American-kestrel video you shows harkens back to your other video on pigeons, and why their heads bob. The kestrel is holding his head perfectly still - like a chicken being waved around by a farmer. Pretty awesome. I wish you'd mentioned that explicitly (like when you called out your paleognathae video), it ties together perfectly.

As a penguin, this is distressing to hear. Gonna have to tell the other penguins about this.

Including and using all the obscure units is hilarious please continue 🤣🤣🤣 I'd love to know how many hydrogen atoms a whale shark weighs 🤣🤣🤣

You know how I imagine your "favorite bird"? "Is it a bird? Then it's my favorite."🥰

@JubioHDX

Ай бұрын

its basically whatever bird he's currently talking about at this point lol

I read about the original penguins in a zoology book from 1885! They had only gone extinct about 15 years prior to the book.

When you started on the cubits and barleycorns I lost a good mouthful of coffee to my nasal cavity. Bravo, you glorious bastard!

I honestly love your measurements scale. This is great

Keys and phone in the same pocket is the most horrifying thing I've ever seen on KZread.

1:28 Never expected clint to use the phrase "OG" and I love it

@Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist

Ай бұрын

Few people know that Clint is actually a gang member

@Freckledkid69

Ай бұрын

He part of the bluds

@ThisUserNameWasNotTaken

Ай бұрын

American Bloods or British Bluds​@@Freckledkid69

@Pootie_Tang

Ай бұрын

@@Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist yeah, he's the member of Warm-Bloods

@Pootie_Tang

Ай бұрын

Well, if you're into that kind of thing =)

Few things: 1) FINALLY somebody doing the sensible thing and using cubits!!! 2) I think you've almost got it on the dynamic soaring. I think that they do use the waves to get a bit of ridge lift to get them started back off the sea surface. Your analogy to the kestrel (predecessor to my favorite airplane, btw) is likewise almost spot on. There is a tiny band of angle of attack for a wing where you can get the effect of trading altitude for airspeed whilst still gaining altitude, and it dies require a bit of an updraft. It is so small that human pilots can't do it reliably without a big updraft, but birds, which have their flight control surfaces hardwired into their central processing units can. {2b) it's pronounced "pitoh" tube, btw. It's a French term, like fuselage. 😅} 3) To quote Muffin, "CHHRRRISTMAS SWIM!!!"

Clint your sense of humor is SO funny LMAO When your videos are on in the background, I might zone out a little bit, but then I hear a Perfectly Normal Sounding statement that's just a little bit off XD The delivery is top notch

Please keep all possible units in future videos

@alveolate

Ай бұрын

editor: 👁👄👁

@mal2ksc

Ай бұрын

@@alveolate This would be ripe for handing off to AI, because who is going to notice if it makes a math mistake in the conversion to microfurlongs? Even if someone did notice, they might just see it as an extension of the joke itself.

@alveolate

Ай бұрын

@@mal2ksc or you know, you could just make a script to churn out all the numbers, maybe even make the formatting for you. really, very few things work better with AI, outside of some very specific niche stuff.

I hate hearing about premature extinctions caused by human greed. If only there was a way to put a stop to it

@Ladieboogie527

Ай бұрын

I have some bad news for you about the penguins that are alive today… “Low sea ice in Antarctica has caused a "catastrophic breeding failure" for penguins. In 2023, 14 of the 66 emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica lost some or all of their chicks due to sea ice breakup. Satellite imagery suggests that no chicks from four out of five colonies in the Bellinghausen Sea appear to have survived in 2022.”

@margodphd

Ай бұрын

​@@Ladieboogie527At least we didn't cause it "directly " and knowing about it, hopefully we have the funds and knowledge to help them recover and prevent potential extinction.

You have the raddest ties Clint! I love animal ties and I need more of them.

Clints commitment to literal interpretation like switching measurements randomly and double negatives is great. Is there such an alignment as lawful chaotic? Coz thats Clint

Retired physicist here. A comment on your explanation of dynamic soaring. First I'll explain dynamic soaring. It works by having different wind speeds at different heights. When facing a wind, that is facing air that is moving towards you, this is equivalent to moving into the air mass. In either case the difference in velocity can be used to generate height. It is the different in air speeds that supplies the energy. In doing so you would eventually move at the same speed as the air, and would no longer be able to generate lift. However if you get enough lift to get into the next layer of wind speed in which case once again you can use the difference between how fast you are going and the air to generate more lift. Again, eventually you reach the same speed as the air and no more lift is available and you drop. When you drop into the slower moving air you again use the speed differential to gain lift. In each case energy is transferred from the wind into the bird. The reason why this is not a perpetual motion model is that the difference in wind speeds is a form of useful energy. To compare to another example think of the situation of two moving walkways side by side but travelling in opposite directions at 1m/s, and where moving from one walkway to the other takes no energy. Starting on one walkway in a cart. Then move over to the other. You suddenly find yourself moving at 2m/s. This energy can be absorbed by your electric braking system to the tune of 1/2 mv2. and your cart then moves at the speed of the second walkway. You can then move your cart back to the first walkway and do the same and absorb energy to the tune of 1/2 mv2. And can keep doing this forever. This isn't energy for free. The energy that is being absorbed by the cart is being supplied by the walkways and without something powering the walkways they would eventually (or quickly) be moving at the same speed as each other. The principle is identical with the layers of air travelling at differing speeds, and the energy that the bird receives is from the difference in the wind speeds. Without the suns heating providing the energy to maintain the differing wind velocities, the birds action of going from one stream to the other would hasten the demise of the difference and eventually the wind speeds would be the same everywhere with the birds no longer able to extract any more energy. The example, as you described with the kestrel cannot happen due to conservation of energy. If the wind is constant and horizontal with no vertical component, then the kestrel can generate a lifting force, but it cannot generate energy to counter the energy lost in friction against the wind. The kestrel would have to start moving backwards with the wind. If what you claim were true then the kestrel could fly when there was no wind without using its wings in exactly the same manner merely by reaching the velocity required. The kestrel hovering into a wind of 20m/s is identical to a kestrel flying at 20m/s in still air. Ironically what you are describing is a perpetual motion machine.

@conlon4332

Ай бұрын

So how do kestrels hover?

@chriswatson7965

Ай бұрын

@@conlon4332 There is either an updraft or they are actively using their wings. I just had a look at one video and there was a clear stiff breeze going upwards and the kestrel was holding his wings as if it was falling.

@jpe1

Ай бұрын

@@conlon4332the wind is blowing strongly enough that the kestrel would climb (like a kite) if it were in “level” flight, but if you look closely you can see that it is, in fact, _diving_ slightly down toward the ground, and that downward pitch is converted to forward thrust, countering the drag force of the wind. No updrafts needed.

@markallen6433

Ай бұрын

This is a good explanation, but a bit difficult for some people to appreciate, I imagine. Might be easier for people to get a sense of dynamic soaring by saying something like this. Flying works by moving through the air, and using that movement to generate lift and maneuverability. When you have wind moving at two speeds, when you transition from one to the other in the right direction, you feel like you are going faster suddenly, and thus have more "airspeed" with which to generate lift and maneuver. I think if you start with that core concept, more people without engineering degrees will be able to grasp it

And if you’re a French-speaker, the bird at 0:58 (the Razorbill) is a true penguin (meaning that not only are penguins not extinct after all, but all the living ones can fly!), but the spheniscids still definitely aren’t (they are “manchots”.) Of course, given your stance on the pronunciation of “niche”, I expect you to stick to your guns about penguins consisting of just one now-extinct species. Though, would you perhaps be willing to consider the Razorbill (the Great Auk’s next of kin) the “hagfish of penguins”?

@shinjiwolf

Ай бұрын

He also pronounced pitot tube wrong as well, it's "pee-toe" rather than "pit-it"

@bobroberts6155

Ай бұрын

The niche thing (rhyming it with pitch) really bothers me, especially as he doubles down on his incorrect pronunciation in one video. On the other hand his vids on phyla are so fascinating that I am in a forgiving mood over this one!

@wincoffin7985

Ай бұрын

@@bobroberts6155 I've been using the 'pitch' form of niche since I was a kid (I'm a birder, and it was not unusual to use the word casually among my fellow birders). In fact I only heard the 'neesh' variant maybe since the 90's, and it sounded really odd and a bit pretentious. So I went to my favorite source, KZread ... and found an excellent explainer... (Conclusion: BOTH ARE CORRECT, and don't forget how English evolves over time.). Take a look: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqGItKxuZa2sZNI.htmlsi=LHQaEtETKNy0oW0T, or if the link fails, look up "Niche Pronunciation - Is it Pitch or Neesh ???" (Donna DeRosa video). I commented earlier on another incorrect usage: Gull versus Seagull. Gull is correct, again, as I've always known (I've been birding since age 6 or 7). Looking that up confirms my understanding.

@vernonfridy8416

Ай бұрын

@@wincoffin7985 Perhaps incorrect for most species, but in the case of the Great Black-backed Gull, what do you think Larus marinus means in Latin?

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x

Ай бұрын

​@@bobroberts6155I second that! Most if not all US and UK based pronounce niche wrong. Including all PBS channels and other popular ones. I'm not French but I've never in my life here's it pronounced that way IRL, and myself used the correct pronunciation from early childhood. And there are also many other mispronounced scientific expressions and terms. And most music channels pronounce names wrong. Especially Bach.

I LOVE your way of describing things, Clint. For example, your explanation of how to tell birds apart by when Christmas happens, LOL! Not only a great explanation of the reason penguins are called penguins (and what we greedy humans did to the OG, the Auks, too), but you cover other cool as bleep sea birds, too. Then again, any time I see a phylogeny line, I know it's gonna cover all the other close relatives of the penguin (OG and false, both, LOL), too. Yep, I recall the hooked bill and grabby murder feet video! May have to watch it again next. 🤔

I appreciate the use of other units of measurement on screen, to help give us an idea of what you are talking about, in case we happen to be more familiar with those units rather than the one in script. I personally am partial to parsecs, so thank you for your thoughtful inclusiveness

Now that Clint is official a penguin, he should bring his long distant relative pingu on the show! Ask him about his symbiotic relationship with that damn seal and why he wont eat his greens...

Though call, but I'd say the Felps system is the most accurate to describe false penguins awesomeness

One of the videos of yours that I have enjoyed most (which is really saying something). Thanks

You said "Penguin" more times than Benedikt Cumberbatch in a documentary about Penguins....and still, you have never lost your feeling about the word "Penguin" xD

@09:16 "Okay, maybe I don't ask you this... because you would probably guess that if I was asking, it's because the answer's crazy...". 🤣

What the Quack did we do this time?..

@LuisAldamiz

Ай бұрын

Didn't you watch that Futurama episode about the pinguins? 😅 Nah, it's something else, something to do about why pinguins (not extinct) are called pinguins.

Wonderful! I learned so much. One thing: there's no such critter as "seagull". It's just a "gull"!

Private: "Skipper, I think they're catching on to us..." Skipper: "Just smile and wave, boys!! Smile and wave!!"

Nothing beats Clint's enthusiasm for teaching and for animals as a whole. I come away from all these videos learning SO much, because it's incredibly engaging being taught by someone who's so passionate.

Getting some buffalo vs bison vibes here

@TheBT

Ай бұрын

Oh I know the difference. You can't wash your hands in a bison, but the buffalo will let you.

@himitsu_tokusketch

Ай бұрын

​@@TheBT I don't get it

@TheBT

Ай бұрын

@@himitsu_tokusketch The classic joke is 'you can't wash your hands in a buffalo'. I decided to flip reverse it.

@alwaystakemarktwainsadvice4269

Ай бұрын

I mean buffalo and bison are not the same. They’re very distinctly different, so that’s not semantics as in this video.

@himitsu_tokusketch

Ай бұрын

@@TheBT exactly I don't get the joke of the og Is it a pun on basin???

Such an interesting video! I love this format

Hey Clint I'm a student of aerospace engineering and the dynamic soaring bit is something I understand pretty well. I've taken a few days to figure out how to explain it: First I'd like to picture this in forms of energy - Kinetic Energy and Gravitational Potential Energy. Now picture the airflow at high altitude an "infinite" well of high velocity, high energy air. High Speed = High kinetic energy, High altitude = High potential energy. Albatrosses take kinetic energy from this "well" of high energy air, use it to kick their speed up. Once they match the velocity of the airflow, they dip down, trading their high potential energy for even more kinetic energy when dipping down to low altitude low energy air. They use this high velocity to generate lift over their wings, to kick back up into the high altitude high energy air. By the time they reach high altitude again, they have traded their kinetic energy for potential energy, losing their speed. Due to the high energy air at this altitude they can once again tap into this energy well and speed up again to repeat the cycle. Hope this helps you better understand this!

A trip to South Africa with Clint and Dingo? Sign me up!

@azurehanyo

Ай бұрын

Thank goodness the “cubits, Babylonian talent, barleycorn, and cologne mark” measuring system is back. I am so jaded by measuring everything relative to parts of 100. 😂

@cwins10

Ай бұрын

Should make that Kevin McCurley guy tag along for good measure lol

@Mephilis78

Ай бұрын

Hopefully they don't mistake him for a white farmer and ... Well

Immediately knew you would talk about Great Auks. Rest in Peace OG penguin.

I had a heart-attack for about 10 seconds, so thanks for that. As an aside, I'd like to humbly request a video on possibly keeping pet Termites! Great video as always, Clint and team. Thanks!

A trip with Clint and Dingo as an aspiring herpetologist sounds absolutely dreamy! What a fantastic way to get true hands on experience, with two amazing reptile experts! I’m fresh out of high school, so finding that experience is tough, haha. How idyllic!

For interest, in Britain an old name for Kestrel (still sometimes used) is 'Windhover': there is a road roundabout near me called 'The Windhover Roundabout', which has a carving of one on a tall pole. An even older name (_not_ still used) was 'Windf*ck*r', involving an obsolete non-sexual meaning of the latter term, something that delivers a blow and/or overcomes or damages something or someone - in British slang, the adjectival form somewhat preserves this.

@JubioHDX

Ай бұрын

i am exclusively calling kestrels wind-fuckers from now on, i thank you dearly

YESSS with the Rescuer’s clip!! My mind went straight to Wilbur during that Albatross liftoff dilemma discussion. 😄 Here’s me at 35 learning that there was scientific fact there and he wasn’t just created to be a clumsy character.

@TheTazame

23 күн бұрын

lmao same

Clint, you really are the best teacher I never had*. *until now. Also, you are the master of actually funny nerd/dad puns. Also also, those are some impressive pockets, I must admit that I'm a little envious.

*sigh* I love this channel and all the people who work on it so much!!

I laughed so hard when you switched to more obscure measurements and listing so many measurement options onscreen. Amazing! 😂 Also... please teach me about life history evolution!!

I prefer the alternate measurements being placed onscreen. Love your videos!

a lot of this went over my head. but still, what a wonderful video

We eneed a video where clint only uses weird freedom units like "12 bigmacs" or "1.2 warshing machines"

@bhuggins6059

Ай бұрын

5 camels long

@carsonianthegreat4672

Ай бұрын

1/128th of a football field.

@sophiejones3554

Ай бұрын

10 smoots long. If you know, you know.

@sophiejones3554

Ай бұрын

10 smoots long. If you know, you know.

I like it when you use really weird measures, gets under the skin of the sorts of people who constantly fight about which set of numbers is "better' in common speech

@Teuwufel

Ай бұрын

Are ''these sorts of people'' with us in the room right now?

this channel was the last place I would expect to receive a ground school style aerodynamics lesson... brings me back

Your always so passionate about the topic.☺

6:30 those units😂😂😂

@Blue_Dragon824

Ай бұрын

america!!!🦅🦅

@ducky36F

Ай бұрын

@@Blue_Dragon824anything except a centimetre

TEACH ME ABOUT LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION!!!!! Also, the Leonardo Dicaprio comment sent me 😆😆😆😆 CLINT! Can we go on a trip to pet wolves and hyenas??!?! I'm just saying... it'd be cool

25:33 Surface patterning, freaking amazing clint! never heard this behavior before, also I would love to watch a video about albatros type flight!

Loved the many units on screen, and prefer on screen than verbal. Didn't expect that many units but I can't complain!

Speaking of hummingbirds: I am looking forward to *possibly* seeing you cover the clade encompassing them and their phylogenetic siblings (closest relatives) the swifts and tree-swifts. You seemed possibly interested in covering the Apodiformes clade on my last comment about that group.

@andyjay729

23 күн бұрын

Also, was it Clint at one time or a commenter who said (fake) penguins are ultimately closer related to hummingbirds than great auks? Maybe I'm reading this cladogram wrong, but it seems like actually auks (Charadriiformes) are closer to hummingbirds than (fake) penguins (though not actually very close to them; Charadriiformes's next of kin are actually cranes and their relatives). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerea

I still am amazed that killdeer must hunt ruminants.

As soon as you brought up albatrosses, I was waiting for a clip from the Rescuers and I was not disappointed .

You cracked me up with those alternative measurements.

I’m so happy to made this video. I work monitoring shearwater and storm petrel colonies and I need to tell you that if you think they can’t take of the ground, wait until you see them landing, their preferred method is crashing on the floor and act like if nothing happened. They are the most majestic beings, yet the goofiest ones at the same time 😅😂

@johnwalters1341

Ай бұрын

When I was a kid, back in the 1950s, I watched a Walt Disney nature movie that had an extended sequence of albatrosses crashing into things on landing. It's why the sailors on Midway Island back during World War II called them "gooney birds."

We could call them new penguins, but someone else said peng-wings and I think we should rename them that lol

@BioWorkAgency

Ай бұрын

Pengwings is the name of the alien penguin-like creatures in the Subnautica: Below Zero btw.

Penguins have always been my favorite animal, when I saw this video I was stoked to learn some crazy information! Thanks, Clint! I am still a false penguin lover!! xD OG penguins too!

The measurements joke had me cracking up laughing out loud. Good job.

" Oh No, say it it's not so... "

@SmaySerpents

Ай бұрын

I will not go , turn the lights off and carry me home😂

@ducky36F

Ай бұрын

@@SmaySerpentsand on and on and on and on and on and on

@tinoderyanto7668

Ай бұрын

say it ain't soo.. uo uo~

@AnnoyingNewsletters

Ай бұрын

🎵 _Keep your head still_ _I'll be your thrill_ _The night will go on_ _My little windmill_ 🎵

@SmaySerpents

Ай бұрын

Hey Clint! I love what I started in you comments! Your a big inspiration too us!

I actually guessed right on the ancestry because I forgot that false pinguins live in other places as well, so I simply asked: What bird can reliably cross an ocean, tolerate cold and has a sea based existence? Knowing that size helps with heat, I figured it had to be something like an albatross. For the question on measurements, I’m from Europe and would appreciate the metric system

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x

Ай бұрын

And if he wants to use imperial next to SI in an on-screen table, at least use all other traditional European measurements, not just the UK and it's overseas derivative! J/K All channels should use SI exclusively.

Love what ya did with the weights and measures..... 😂😂

In a few days, I'll be going camping to see Fairy penguins! I've always loved birds, and flightless birds fascinate me.