Check out PART TWO here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fX6d3LSQpqyYkrA.html HUGE thanks to Aspen Aspires for this collaboration! It was awesome. Let me know if there's too many midroll ads in this video. Also, I'm hoping to post episode 8 of Project Apollo later this month(no guarantee though), which will be about the relationships between predator and prey species of cattle.

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Glad to do the collaboration and I can’t wait to do more! Can’t wait to see more Appolo content 😊

@Carlos-bz5oo

23 күн бұрын

On koalaotters: there is a living marsupial, the yapok, which contains its young whithin its pouch when it dives thanks to a sphincter in it. As for the barbels in the catfish amphibians, caecilians have barbels so it's not an unusual feature for amphibians to develop

@Carlos-bz5oo

23 күн бұрын

Also, Macroeuphractus is a real life example of an armoured predator

@No_Nem12345

23 күн бұрын

Pls do an ant seedworld

@AspenAspires

22 күн бұрын

@@No_Nem12345 that sounds like an interesting idea

that thumbnail is gonna get you shanked

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

I may or may not have intentionally made it a little inflammatory, but if this does get me shanked that would be a really funny way to go out

@WhatAHandleThisIs_

24 күн бұрын

Well the word “REALISM” is in all caps in the title so I think people would see and understand Then again this is the internet and many people do not read

This is eye candy on steroids, as a biology nerd and an avatar lover

@Samanimates292

28 күн бұрын

Darn I cut off the comment, I meant to have a comma with a , and a generic “good job!”

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

@@Samanimates292glad you enjoyed the videos!

@KingDrakoTyrell

27 күн бұрын

As a biology nerd seeing the hybrid animals used to hurt me so badly because I always look at things with “how would that be possible” when watching movies, and it’s pretty annoying because it stops me from enjoying the movie sometimes.

@Samanimates292

15 күн бұрын

@@KingDrakoTyrell Like what movies?

@KingDrakoTyrell

15 күн бұрын

@@Samanimates292 any movies really.

The gorilla goats literally have a prefect real world representative. The extinct ungulate chalicothere, a knuckle walking horse relative with a tail. How is it unlikely?

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Well that is a good point, I was thinking about them being a derived goat or primate, but with that in mind I would have ranked them higher. My apologies!

You had a minor oversight with the koala otter: Being an aquatic marsupial would not be as big of a problem as you suggest. Since water opossum just evolved for their pouch to be watertight, which seems like it would be normal for most aquatic marsupials: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_opossum

@user-kt4to5xs9l

28 күн бұрын

Also it’s possible the “ears” are just a bunch of fur that happens to look like an ear

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Huh! I must have missed that, and I’m sorry! If I knew about that, I would have likely ranked them higher.

@nolanbaker2360

28 күн бұрын

​​@@user-kt4to5xs9lor they may collapse/fold against the head

The Buffaloyak looks like its just a cold adapted Wildebeest, lmao

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

I could definitely see it 🤔

Elephant Koi "only" look about 10 meters long. Which matches stuff like whale sharks and leadcycthyes (spelled that wrong).

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

That may be true, although morphology wise they don’t seem to have the apparatus for filter feeding that allows/allowed those fish to get so big

@nolanbaker2360

28 күн бұрын

​@@AspenAspires perhaps bigger or more plentiful prey

"The boarcupine's aggression knocks it to the bottom of B tier" How to say you don't know anything about wild pigs without saying you don't know anything about wild pigs.

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

True but they were aggressive to my boy Appa that’s why they went lower on the list 😅

@nolanbaker2360

28 күн бұрын

​@@AspenAspiresnothing dis similar to a wolverine and bison

@beastmaster0934

26 күн бұрын

Wild pigs and peccaries are some aggressive mofos.

The most realistic animals in Avatar are the non-benders!

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

That may be true 😅

@Samanimates292

27 күн бұрын

Bear: *exists*

There was a theory a while ago that the avatar world was far smaller than ours which is how a lot of the non benders did massive acrobatic feats (ty lee), and helps explain how things as large as the buzzard wasps can fly. If that is the intent that would help quite a bit with the square cube law issue a lot of the larger earth kingdom animals faced, less energy moving and climbing around and less muscle and bone strength needed for their mass

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

If their world is much smaller with lighter gravity that would make these make a lot more sense, and that kind of tracks as it seems like their iworld is really really small based on how fast they can get around there

@alexjewett7455

18 күн бұрын

The planet being smaller makes sense, considering there's only the one continent, and a few island.

@cevatkokbudak6414

9 күн бұрын

​@@alexjewett7455Yeah

For the camel-elephant you have to remember that deserts can get to freezing temperatures at night, making large, elephant ears detrimental as well as unnecessary if the animal has the same adaptations as camels (which, since they have humps they do). Camels rarely sweat and the fat stored in their humps helps them regulate their body temperature in desert environments. Camels mostly only store their fat in their humps, which draws heat away from their bodies and their fur is thick enough to shield them from the sub-zero temperatures of night. This is why camels don't have a need for elephant-like ears. Also, elephant ears aren't just for thermoregulation but also communication and intimidation. As for Elephant Koi, there are giant fish in the fossil record that aren't filter feeders in real life. Megalodon being a prime example but you also have the modern giant ocean sunfish which eat jellifish and the extinct Leedsichthys which may have reached lengths of 54 ft or 16.5 metres and likely ate jellifish, small fish and shrimp. Real life Koi are also omnivorous which would give the Elephant Koi greater opportunities to feed to maintain their massive sizes. We know very little about the Avatar oceans, especially the deep oceans but given the amount of mega-predators we see we can conclude that the Avatar oceans must be very rich in wildlife that we just don't get to see. As for the Shirshu's sense of smell it is actually highly plausible. Cougars have been known to track females in heat hundreds of miles from smell alone. Elephants also have an excellent sense of smell, able to locate water underground from over 20 kilometres (12 miles) away.

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

All of these very valid points! I’m really glad you enjoyed this video

The pentapus has five tentacles and it is radially symmetrical (with five eyes instead of the two eyes of cephalopods) so rather an a cephalopod it's more plausible for it to be an echinoderm related to starfish.

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Possibly, although it seems plausible that these animals are cephalopods that lost limbs instead of echinoderms that evolved a very octopus-like body plan

@sqrt2295

28 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires The radially distributed five eyes is what led me to think they were echinoderms, since it would be weird for a bilateral cephalopod to evolve pentaradial symmetry, whereas starfish already have five eyes (though they're at the end of each tentacle instead of near the top)

@nolanbaker2360

28 күн бұрын

​@@AspenAspires I'd say it's converging evolution, with body symmetry very rarely changing. The starfish ancestry seems more plausible

@AspenAspires

27 күн бұрын

@@sqrt2295 upon further inspection you are right, so the pentapus may be an echinoderm. Many points still apply with a montane aquatic animal, although I am slightly embarrassed that I missed that

Turkey Duck should have gotten S as it resembles Muscovy Ducks so closely.

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Good point, 🤔

Well there was once a platypus species "Obdurodon tharalkooschild" that was twice the size of the modern one, which is still just 1 meter long & as wide as a dog of that lengt, but it shows that they aren't that limited in their size range. Oh & they had teeth in their bill, like the platypus bear to.

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

That is a good point 🤔

I would have imagined the Reptile birds to be reptile like birds, not the other way round. The claws on the wings is seen in several birds in our world (hoatzins and turacos as chicks, and most ratites) I would have thought them to be neotonous hoatzins or turacos, hoatzin if you want it more iguana like or turaco for more parrot. The tail being an atavistic trait as they adapt to a more quadruped lifestyle.

came over here from Aspen's discord Poggers

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Glad to see someone from the server here! Thank you so much for the support

This is the collab I didn't know I needed!

3:24 Buffalo yaks also appeared in the legend of korra in a flashback where tanraq korras dad as well as several northern water tribe Warriors ride several to chase a band of barbarians out of the northern water tribe capital city

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Noted, thank you very much!

Pls make a The Croods animal accuracy video

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Ooh that sounds like a fun idea! My summer is going to be busy but I could see that happening in the future eventually

Well the Avatar world is smaller than ours(probably) so it kinda make sense for animals to be larger

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

That is true, although some animals may struggle with finding enough food to make them that large. Canyon crawlers for example may be fine getting that large, but what do they eat in the desert environment of the canyon that allows them to sustain themselves!

Sky bison are s tier and no one can convince me otherwise

I dare you to rank Pikmin enemies by realism next.

Also, Macroeuphractus is a rl example of an armoured predator.

Next Project Apollo ep when?

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Alien Evolution says in the pinned comment that he wants to release episode 8 of Apollo later this month

The tiger-dillos could be prey for dragons. That could explain their armor.

@len518

27 күн бұрын

That might mean that the armor is fire proof which would make them more dangerous to fire benders and that would explain their reputation!!

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

Ooh that would make sense! Armor and size would be very good defenses against dragosn

Would the intelligence of some animals also make a difference in the plausibility? Like the pigmy panthers being able to understand who momo is looking for in appts lost days (at least I think they do it I remember it correctly) it could be that it’s too unclear but I think it’s fun to consider

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

That would have been fun to consider as well

On koalaotters: there is a living marsupial, the yapok, which contains its young whithin its pouch when it dives thanks to a sphincter in it. As for the barbels in the catfish amphibians, caecilians have barbels so it's not an unusual feature for amphibians to develop.

@AspenAspires

20 күн бұрын

Noted

The raven eagle is my fave. The possom chicken is decently likely. It kinda remind me of tree ant eators. And of course possoms. Also it may not have feathers and just have hair like feathers. The tiger dillo may have a shell to protect them from hazzardus enviorments and internal comfrontations. Also i may wanna add that the other serphants may be extinct being y we only see 1.

@AspenAspires

23 күн бұрын

Fair points

I hope you do this with Madly Mesozoic with the accessing survival speculative evolution animals on the channel.

Can you please continue the cattle speculative evolution?

@AspenAspires

Күн бұрын

He is currently working on it last time we talked so hopefully it comes out soon!

It was interesting video and if you will analyze feasibility of creatures from another series I wu gladly watch it.

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

I would be down to come back to that later, there’s plenty of places to go like Amphibia

3:55 What do they eat though? We never saw any grass in the northern water tribe? 10:55 also what do they eat? At least the south pole has been show to be in permafrost. They build cities out of ice. In the north we see some melting, but not a blade of grass. 16:29 if they are based on crocodiles they may very well be hibernating or just waiting all year from some large migration to pass through. Maybe some sort of bowvine periodically migrates through the canyon. 21:48 Adult possums don't. Baby possums actually do it irl.

@AspenAspires

27 күн бұрын

These are good points, thank you for the input!

Sheep pig is possible, for we have the Mangalica

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

True, although for the Hybrid Pigs I may have been a bit biased, my apologies 😅

@paleo-zoo-keeper-association

28 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires No worries 👍

'Twas great, I'm hpyed for part 2

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

It is up on my channel if you haven’t seen it yet

@frogoverlord1226

24 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires I saw it on my home page like 2 minutes after posting that comment. I have watched it now, although I think I forgot to like so you ended up helping me regardless.

No way! I was like hold on is this the right video😂

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Glad you’re here watching! We hope you enjoyed it

Until I read the title I was about to throw hands for putting Appa in F tier lol

@AspenAspires

23 күн бұрын

Fair enough! Appa is the best boy

Great video! Not sure if it is just me, but for large portions of the video, the audio and the images on screen felt out of sync by a few seconds, might want to look into that.

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

We had some copyright issues so we had to mess around with things, which messed up the sync. I’m so sorry if that messed with your viewing experience!

Lets go

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Let’s go!!! 🗿

nice video

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Nice comment!

the giant carp I would consider plausible as throughout the earths history giant fish have evolved I mean heck we have giant fish today Sharks and Sunfish are good examples making the giant fish in my opinion plausible.

@AspenAspires

23 күн бұрын

Good argument that could work, if I were to redo this I would put the elephant carp in B or C tier

28:18 maybe they canabalise each other regularly and need the shells to protect against it

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

That could be an interesting hypothesis! I like that idea

As someone who has tried to grow cabbages, I disagree with Cabbage slugs not being real! :D

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

Oh no! I hope your cabbage growth goes well

The elephants closest relatives are hyrax capensis no elephant shrews

@len518

27 күн бұрын

Not* of course

@len518

27 күн бұрын

Also in Dutch their name translates to clipbadgers which makes the afrotheria even more misunderstood

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

@@len518my bad I made that one wrong

Pls Do An Flying Goats Video?

Cool

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Do intelligent life on apollo

@AspenAspires

20 күн бұрын

I would love to see that

WHAT THIS WAS MADE BY YOU?

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Made by me and Alien Evolution!

Neat :)

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it dude! 👍👍

just call the godly fish gods

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

Mm fish god

Why do they mix reptiles and mammals like turtles with seals and penguins with seals

@AspenAspires

Күн бұрын

Artistic liberty which looks cool but is implausible, kinda like the Jurassic park raptors or dilo

Why would you rank the koala otter bellow the polar bear dog even thoigh they both have ears too big for the polar region?

@AspenAspires

24 күн бұрын

I would say as the Polar Bear dog appears to be more terrestrial and the Koala Otter is more aquatic, and the proportions involved

@italucenaz

24 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires yeah, I agree,

Turkeyducks are real

@AspenAspires

20 күн бұрын

More or less I guess that is true

@user-rr2qj1ck1n

20 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires I saw them in a zoo they are black in colour and have white markings and they have the thing which turkeys have on their nose

Considering a platypus is an actual creature, im sure avatar animals could exist.

@justaguyontheinternet3893

28 күн бұрын

Also, to 28:04, the animal that is probably eating them would be the sabertooth moose lion, or maybe even the different large insects in the earth kingdom.

@justaguyontheinternet3893

28 күн бұрын

also, the camelephant is from the fire nation, not the earth nation, considering the fire nation has a dance based off them.

@justaguyontheinternet3893

28 күн бұрын

and another thing, the unagi & serpent are both supposed to be wild animals, not supernatural creatures. They should have been placed in either D tier or F tier, I would vote for D tier, considering large marine reptiles & fish have existed before.

@nolanbaker2360

28 күн бұрын

​​@@justaguyontheinternet3893I'm not personally a huge fan of his rankings tbh The unagi n serpent are quite enormous tho

@AspenAspires

27 күн бұрын

@@justaguyontheinternet3893the reason I put The Unagi and The Serpent in F tier is because they’re like Godzilla. You don’t see a breeding population of Godzillas, which all species have, you only see one. There’s only one Unagi and Serpent, much like how there is only one Godzilla

🗿👍

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

🗿👍

35th

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Thank you for watching! We hope you enjoyed 😊

The serpent shows up both in the serpents pass and s3e1☝️🤓

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Thank you! Sorry I missed that, but that still leaves them in F tier

Theres no magic in avatar

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

Bending is not seen as magic by the people of that world, but from our perspective where bending doesn’t exist, it basically functions as magic

@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574

18 күн бұрын

your joking

@Dem1z_

18 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires exactly its not magic while to us it is for them its like a normal thing plus you never see anything truly magic it gives you bending and everything else you see is just that which is why i love avatar

@AspenAspires

18 күн бұрын

@@Dem1z_ well in their world bending is reality but their world is not our reality, so when they bend it is appropriate to call it magic. The thing about magic that if it was real we would never call it that.

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@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

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@Quantumquinten7co

28 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires last'tn't

@AspenAspires

27 күн бұрын

@@Quantumquinten7colastn’tn’tn’t

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR VOICE????

@AspenAspires

23 күн бұрын

That was largely my voice actually!

@kimberlylewistyner2070

23 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires TANK YOU!!

@AspenAspires

22 күн бұрын

@@kimberlylewistyner2070 no worries, I hope you liked my voice!

@kimberlylewistyner2070

20 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires i like it!

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@AspenAspires

27 күн бұрын

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Why does he speak so slow?

@baneofbanes

28 күн бұрын

Probably because people would complain that he talks to fast if he spoke faster.

@AspenAspires

28 күн бұрын

They* speak slow because I’m just used to narrating all my videos like that. In real life I talk a little less slowly, and I’m sorry if I spoke a bit too slow for your liking

@sergiohelgueramartinez7479

12 күн бұрын

@@AspenAspires thanks for the answer! And sorry for miss-gendering you! This is just personal preference, obviously, but I feel it may help your vids if you spoke with a faster cadence.