The Whale Which Annoyed Justinian and Other Historical Animals

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series continues with a video on Porphyrios - the whole who famously annoyed the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian, and other bizarre and prominent historical animals, including Alexander's horse Boukephalas, Mughal animals Hawa'i, Samand and Akbar, French greyhound Saint Guinefort, prophet Muhammad's camel and donkey, and more.

#Documentary #Historical #Animals

[jlvfr]

Byzantium should have tried to bribe the whale...

[barbiquearea]

Forget whales. Pliny the Younger once told a story about the Dolphin of Hippo. It was about a Roman city in North Africa where a local boy befriended a dolphin, who let him ride it. The boy and his dolphin then became inseparable, and it people from around the area all came to Hippo to see this dolphin. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder also had other accounts of other dolphins that allowed themselves to be petted, fed and even ridden by people. One such dolphin, he claimed, carried a boy in Italy across a bay to school at the city of Pozzuoli.

[CineRanter]

There's something quite terrifying about there being a giant whale hidden in the waters for 50 years terrorizing hassong ships. Another gem added to the history of Constantinople

[Beren]

Eastern Roman Empire: *a center of progress, innovation, cultural exhange and riches*

Whale: "Nah, I'd win."

[foregone_roulette]

Knowing the Eastern Roman officials, if they captured Porphyrious they would have blinded him and put him in a whale monastery

[abcdef]

"Hah, amateurs... Those Eastern Romans were amateurs!" - Brazilian Navy seeing the story of Porphyrios, and remembering what they done to a bunch of porpoises in 1918.

[DiasThiago]

ngl starting a video saying that "animal always existed" is a bold choice

[d-boyzinfinity]

Love the video. It’s great when y’all cover unorthodox and obscure history that no one else really talks about. I learned a lot from this video and all of it was interesting and very relevant to our history despite not being talked about as much as it should

[me]

11:53

There's something funny about hearing Devin say "pupper"

[arkitsingh]

I thought this was exclusively about Porphyros.

[rossr]

Came for the ornery orca, stayed for the legendary talking ass.

[ElBandito]

And now the Orcas are ramming rich people's yachts.

[bebinca]

Wow ! This is a super Kings and Generals docu. Thank you

[atuno]

ive been following this channel for a few years now, and i must say this is one of my absolute favourite videos, i really like the way you guys present this other side of history that often goes ignored because of Anthropocentrism. Congratulations!

[eddiecarpenter]

Great video, makes me think of modern animal greats like Trigger, Silver, Lassie, Mobydick and Mr. Ed.

See you in the next one.

[tyranitararmaldo]

Whale whale whale...what do we have here, an animal episode?

[andrewthomson]

King General, Thanks a fascinating historical angle!

[chris-qeyc]

Cyprus mentioned Indeed to this day cats have a special status among Cypriots, seen everywhere from the sandy beaches to to the highest altitude village!

[Mr.KaganbYaltrk]

Maybe next video will be about the beast of Gévaudan

[GodzillaX]

Whales are such gentle beasts, i wonder what could've happened to it that caused it to become so aggressive