The 'orse loves the 'ound, and I loves both.
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Hanga-round-roos.
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Cute! But this is amazing:
They are superficially similar to marmots or over-large pikas but are much more closely related to elephants and sirenians.
Elephants? Sea cows?!?
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Back when the (non-avian) dinosaurs went extinct, all the southern continents were still more or less separate. So as mammals evolved to occupy the different niches there were originally different groups on each one. Now of course the only one that is still isolated and not frozen over is Australia, so that’s where we still see completely unique fauna. But for a couple dozen million years Africa was an island continent too, and the afrothere mammals there diversified into whole ecosystems on their own too.
The reason they all seem so strangely different now is the normal ones are gone. Africa ran into Eurasia and was taken over by ungulates, carnivorans, rodents, the kind of things you see there now. The afrotheres that survived are a handful that had found their own weird niches. Rock hyraxes are the one survivor from a whole range of ancient hyracoids. Elephants and sea cows didn’t really have a Eurasian equivalent, and so have both been able to spread the other way too.
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Really interesting! Thanks for commenting. I had to look up afrotheres, because I’d never heard of that as a group. Surprising to me.
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Burgundy beans!
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Don’t go to Paris. Let Paris come to you (if you live long enough).
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yt recco’d those and these to me, only I haven’t yet watched the scritchies one 
Not HD by a long shot, and not terribly well filmed, but Tapir noises!
Hadta mute the music after a little while
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Was not expecting the squeak.
And why do content creators insist on crappy music? Sometimes it’s apt, like this one, but this content creator chooses her music with care
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Most animal vids don’t need any music. [Most vids don’t full stop!] I’d much prefer hearing the sounds they make, even if all they’re doing is walking around.
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I like munching sounds.
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