There Is No Such Thing as a 'Raptor'

Hawks, eagles, owls, falcons and other birds of prey are awesome! I mean, who doesn't love raptors? But what if I told you that raptors are not a thing? What if I told you that falcons are more closely related to parrots and crows than they are to hawks, eagles, or owls? Well what if I tell you all about the raptors, what they are, how they are related, and what else they are related to? Let's dive into the Telluraves!

#clintsreptiles #raptors #birdsofprey

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Clint is a professional biologist and educator, but above all, Clint LOVES reptiles and he loves to share that love with everyone he meets. Whether you're lover or a hater of reptiles, you can't help but get excited with Clint!
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[ClintsReptiles]

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[carsonianthegreat]

Raptor is a behavioral-morphological category, not a cladistic one. It’s like the old definition of “beast” (which refers to cattle, horses, oxen, etc).

[GHSTHST]

man...Clint's excitement over these subjects just makes me happy

[giovanni]

Guatemalan here, I loved your comment about Quetzales and gringos. You are now living in my heart forever.

[noahmaas]

This channel is dangerous. I have other things I need to do, but here I am learnin' birds.

[MrHugemoth]

Yes, do one on ravens. The ravens that live in Death Valley understand how zippers work. I watched one unzip my motorcycle panniers and take my lunch. They also know how to turn on the faucets at campgrounds to get a drink of water.

[nedweeks]

I collect eggs from my chickens daily, I am the oviraptor!

[jasonwardbirds]

Show me the birds! Yes, I’m a biased ornithologist who would love to see this channel cover all of the birds. All. Of. Them.
Thank you, Clint for a wonderful video!

[circle_cut_sandwich]

PLEASE I NEED A FULL OWL VIDEO!!! I love owls so much! It would be absolutely incredible to see someone as educated as you talk about them in detail ❤

[PMickeyDee]

You know, I've had an awful day & had zero interest in watching a video about birds right now. But I am so glad I clicked this one because the level of genuine excitement & enthusiasm Clint shows when teaching about animals has absolutely made my day 😁

[shinyseppen]

“If you’re into that kind of thing”

Good sir, you know dam well we’re into kind of that thing!

[anothersquid]

The raven-form thing is similar to how birds are not bird-hipped dinosaurs.

[jordanbabcock]

"Show me the birds!"

Did exactly as told sir.

[LivingInBoredom]

“But not side to side or back in time” some of these phrasings are so good 😂 what an excellent teacher, clint’s videos and his absolutely infectious enthusiasm for even the weird parts (especially the weird parts) of biology have been the way i’ve finally been able to break into understanding animal taxonomy. It’s been such a bogeyman subject of mine for my whole life and now I’m finally starting to get it!
thank you clint!!!

[alanhonlunli]

Clint is easily my favorite channel right now. His enthusiasm is so contagious! Great work, once again!

[achristiananarchist]

AI Clint's issues are one of the main concerns with people using LLMs as actual research and content generation tools. People call them "hallucinations" but I've never found this to be a term that particularly accurately captures what is going on. A hallucination implies that in any other state one can see things clearly, but LLMs basically *only* hallucinate. They don't really know anything. They just take a prompt as an input and then generate the words that are the nearest neighbors in the answer space to the prompt, then generate words that are the nearest neighbors to those words, and so on. I work on somewhat similar problems, but related to images instead of words, and when you examine the neighbors for something like an image search algorithm, most will make sense, some always won't.

AI Clint can't say "I don't know" because AI Clint doesn't know anything. If I asked you where third street is, you would think of where third street is, and, if you knew, then construct a response that would communicate the information back to me. AI Clint never does that middle step. He hears a question, and jumps immediately to constructing a response in the proper form for the question. Since the data he was trained on does contain factual information, if where third street was was present in that training data it is quite likely to include that information in the response, since something has to go in the noun and direction spaces when he says "noun is in direction", and third street and the direction to third street are probably going to be the best candidates, but it never actually thinks about where third street is. He just generates an appropriate sounding response. The response is always a hallucination. It's just usually a hallucination that reflects reality, at least to an acceptable degree.

[sparkyfister]

"Grabby foot murder birds" are my favorite.

[ActiveAngel]

Great idea! Do a Corvid episode.

Corvids are such beautiful, intelligent, charismatic, and widespread birds. And you can probably find a friend to bring one as a live example on set. (Bonus if you can find 2 friends with both a crow and raven)

You can discuss all the many differences between crows and ravens, as well as the myths around these popular birds!

You can also market this video to the Halloween/October crowds (along with the "terrible skeleton" reviews). Jeez, that could easily be a 45 minute episode for a relatively small group.

I knew a charismatic researcher that studied them at the Field Museum in Chicago several years ago.

[Abbanellie]

As a parrot enthusiast I am SO happy you're defending budgies!!

[bernieshort]

You got it right Clint; we could do with a segment completely on owls. They are amazing creatures. Bring it on - please. I do not know anyone who is as enthusiastic about their job as you are, you inspire people and just draw them in, its electrifying.