Top 10 Most Criminally Misunderstood Animals

Honorable mentions: pandas, pigeons, bats, wolves and probably the Tasmanian tiger for getting gaslit into extinction



Music from:
Dusty Dune Galaxy- Super Mario Galaxy
Delfino Plaza Theme- Super Mario Sunshine
Smashing Song of Praise- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Daisy's Circuit- Mario Kart Wii

Clips Used:

[alchemy]

Rats getting tiny medals for cleaning minefields is a fact I didn't know I needed until now.

[Pudding]

"Before you wage war on a watter waffle."
"Crepe of the coast"

I swear, for having such a bad rep, stingrays have some of the cutest nicknames.

[andreworders]

The guy who wrote Jaws felt so bad about what he did to their reputation he became a marine conservationist to try and clear their name.

[Aster_Iris]

Fun fact: in Romanian mythology there's a parallel world where the inhabitants are described as kind, caring towards themselves and humans, helpful, and all in all the ideal Saint, and are dubbed The Gentle Ones. The Gentle Ones also so happen to be rat people.
A free batch of cookies to the old timey Romanians, they knew what was actually up with rats.

[spliffdelakong]

I miss my rat. Long story short I bought him as a teenager as a joke to scare my mom but she thought he was cute and Tiny (who was FAAAAR from tiny when he grew up) became the best pet I've ever had.

He was my homie for real. He was free to roam around my room when I was home and he was always chillin with me. I'd be chillin watching TV and eating chips, he was chillin with me watching TV eating eating chips and he'd go to a little Tupperware container with some of his bedding in it as his bathroom.

Saddest day of my teenage life was when I came home to him on my bedroom floor breathing really heavy. I put him back in his tank and woke up to him stiff as a statue. I'm not ashamed to say I cried like a baby at 19 years old (shit... my eyes are hot typing this).

RIP Tiny. You fuckin legend.

[ericthompson]

Steve Irwin is 100% telling that stingray he's not mad and apologizing for misbehaving.

[oratorinvisibilia]

"Calling it shark-infested waters is mad disrespectful."

That is an excellent point.

[beaksters]

Ironically a lot of animals which feed from remains of the dead but don’t particularly hunt for their own food are viewed as evil historically, which is extremely odd in retrospect.

[spoopyboi]

"everyone wanna shit on the garbage man until he quits and leaves you with the shits" as a janitor, omfg i love this quote. Istg nobody gives a shit until something's left and becomes their problem

[Coyoteari]

“More corpse happy than a necro in a morgue” was not a phrase I expected to hear today, but here we are

[kalypsovaldez]

When I was a child, I dressed up as both a hyena and a shark for separate Halloweens, because I loved watching nature documentations and I really thought that they were much cooler and more important than they got credit for
My father made the costumes for me and I still have them to this day

[CH-fcdm]

“Loan sharks end more lives” is the best one-liner in defense of sharks I have ever heard. Thank you for what you do.

[logicplague]

Steve would ABSOLUTELY not want anyone looking at stingrays in a negative light, nor learning to fear them.

[AuroraPaintBrush]

Vultures are nature's disease delete button. Gotta respect a bird that will do the heavy lifting on clean up duty.

[violetapena]

"With intelligent animals there's always going to be duality" is a really good phrase, very true. Intelligence is double edged sword.

[angryotter]

I had a rat that lived for 5 years, which is really long for a rat, and I still miss her twenty years after she died. They are so obviously intelligent and attached to their caretakers. The only reason I haven’t had one since is because I don’t want to deal with the grief of how short their lifespans are again.

[Verdugo_Arulaq]

6:34 I once saw a post that said we know if Steve met the stingray in the afterlife he would not hold a grudge whatsoever
He’d say something along the lines of “hey there little fella! I’m sorry I gave ya a spook, gosh you’re a real beauty aren’t ya?”

We mustn’t hold hatred in our hearts

[Ruosteinenknight]

Peter Benchley, author of Jaws, did full 180 when he learned about how important part sharks play in the marine ecosystem and dedicated rest of his life to marine conservation. He actually said that if he had an opportunity to write Jaws again, he would potray the shark as victim of humans who becomes gaia's avenger.

[ajm]

Fun fact:

While rats CAN carry the bubonic plague and spread it to humans, they rarely do because it kills them, too. A rat that's dying of plague is unlikely to spread it very far. DOGS, on the other hand, have a higher tendency to be asymptomatic carriers, and can easily spread the plague widely within human populations. So the Black Death was not only MOSTLY spread by humans, but was also likely spread more by dogs than by rats.

[OsakaHibachi]

you know, i actually managed to make "friends" with the crows around my house thanks to your videos. i wouldn't call us "BEST" friends, but when they see me come outside, they'll fly over (pretty close?) and say hi. they are kind of the guardians of my two honeybee hives, since i feed them unsalted peanuts over by where the bees are.