THIS IS the Most DISRESPECTED Animal of 2026 / Casual Geographic React

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]trade is that their distress in basically >> how this became the most disrespected animal of 2026.

[00:00:16]All right, now let me find out what animal is that because that looks fat and I love it. It looks like a freaking I don't know like a meat bun.

[00:00:25]>> Just some BS with f.

[00:00:27]>> Wait, what was that?

[00:00:30]Just >> I love it.

[00:00:34]>> Some BS with fur. Default mammal. Bro is just a template thing. Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:00:39]Just a random effing thing. Login reward. This might be the worst one.

[00:00:43]Login reward. The internet decided to have a cultural.

[00:00:46]>> Why? Why? Wait, why people bullying him?

[00:00:52]What? What did he do? Why people bullying him?

[00:00:56]>> He's just a little guy. Yeah, he's just a little guy just chilling >> campfire. But instead of roasting marshmallows, Nature's Untitled Project got flamed with every way to say they're easy to draw. Straight bullying a beta test. You got >> Why does he look like me when I use my chibi model? What is that?

[00:01:19]>> Did I be offended or like complimented?

[00:01:22]>> Man, they look the same.

[00:01:26]What the e?

[00:01:30]What?

[00:01:31]>> Got folks saying we never officially discovered this mammal until someone went into a pet store and asked for an animal. John Mamml, they're calling him.

[00:01:37]They're slandering the life out of MY >> When the last pizza slice hits.

[00:01:50]Sorry. Oh my god.

[00:01:52]>> I got to say something. Especially with his big homie on my chest. This potato vampire is a hierarch. They did not evolve for 50 million years just to get called a furry template. Bro is literally in the Bible. Especially when the imitation bunny's closest relatives are elephants, which everyone loves. And >> what was that?

[00:02:10]Wait, >> which everyone loves?

[00:02:15]>> And manities, which laws had to stop people from loving. The same animal folks are calling the first interaction in a tutorial is cousins with the most iconic animal on Earth. But it's not like there aren't signs. Hierraxes have the same tusks for fighting and female validation. Although the bar for impressive is lower than their both.

[00:02:30]>> He looks like a dork.

[00:02:34]He looks like he's about to do your taxes and your homework.

[00:02:38]>> Cuz having an internal coin purse is another thing they have in common. To be fair, Iraxes have a lot in common with a lot of animals. Let's count them out. If conversion eat roads, that boy's a roundabout. Dun stole so many animals flow. If this were a Pokemon, he'd be Pllegerio. They took the elephant's tusk and toes. The only jaw you'd expect on a rhinoceros, a pah plus build with marmet for measure, but only one reps a rodent varsity sweater. It's a miscellaneous mammal nature uploaded at the last moment. They're such trash thermal regulators, they're more reptile than rodent. As a partially cold-blooded concept, most of the hieraxis energy comes from charging in the sun, giving it the same pastime as a visca. But they're less efficient than the sensei gerbble, where viscatchas may spend a quart. What the hell am I looking at now?

[00:03:17]>> Time sunbathing. This sentensient 1159 project submission has about 5% of its life when it's not just sitting idally.

[00:03:23]Hierax has inherited the koala problem, but at least koalas have the excuse of poor diet. Nature green lit the mammal versus what? Why this so derpy of battery sold separately? They didn't ask for any of this yet. The internet has been cooking them like they come with XP. But obviously this organism dies and offers zero, which isn't just outrageous slander for an animal name dropped in the holy book and whose poop has been used in perfumes. It just shows, >> huh?

[00:03:49]>> How fast the internet will turn on you.

[00:03:51]Seems like just yesterday people were hyping up the hierax making them.

[00:03:54]>> Yo, that actually looked like a picture of me and Zen.

[00:04:01]>> What the hell?

[00:04:02]>> Hy making them vile every time they made a sound. Just a today act like they haven't been around. There's so much more that meets the eye with the organism.

[00:04:11]>> Sorry, I can't.

[00:04:14]I think I truly found my new spirit animal.

[00:04:20]What the hell is this >> of all time? Like the fact this template has six different types. You got the rock hierrax, the most common and iconic of the Rexes. Although being the most iconic of an animal called a placeholder is like winning prom queen of a home school. Just know that if you see a dozy on your feed, it's probably a rock hyrax. And these Rockies have enough clout to be the VIP member of the Brokavia Hierrax genus.

[00:04:40]>> Uhhuh.

[00:04:41]>> But only because they're the only living member of it. There's three Hierax genuses. And Heterohyaxrax is home to the Bush Hierax. You're forgiven if you can't tell them apart. Nature Xerox.

[00:04:50]It's not your fault. The Bushrax looks like it tried to implement the same mask method to farm empathy. But like everything else, it was a poor imitation. They're smaller than rock hierraxes, but again, no hard feelings if you can't differentiate. The chances I mixed up the pictures in this section are lower than the chances someone's going to care enough to notice. But the bush's defining trait is that their distressed stem basically.

[00:05:14]>> What was that sound?

[00:05:16]>> Chances someone's going to care enough to notice. But the bush racks defining trait is that they're just goofy ass.

[00:05:28]What is this?

[00:05:31]>> Preston basically defined the entire species.

[00:05:35]I guess you're becoming famous on the internet because of me, so try and show a little appreciation.

[00:05:41]>> Okay.

[00:05:41]>> Yeah, that's the Ahawa, and he's telling you to make like Michael Jackson and beat it. And the third genus is Dendro Hierax, which actually has four species: the southern, eastern, western, and the Benin tree hierax. Same ideas, different font. The western looks like he's seen some [ __ ] and chances are it was his reflection. It's the only Hierax that looks like it has to be held back cuz he decided he'd rather look like a boar than be one. The eastern tree Hyrax looks like the shiny Pokémon of the bunch. a regular part of the diets of leopards, eagles, and pythons. They're just the part that says etc. The southern tree has >> My god, imagine being on the food chain and your cat is etc. Oh my god.

[00:06:20]>> Pyrex is interesting and that it'll rapidly bounce on the ground to travel when excited, which is what you're looking at right now, so long as someone cared enough to record it. Now, they say their status is of least concern, but I'd say their blood curdling night screams are mildly concerning.

[00:06:37]Speaking of scream, >> I think it's like a freaking skin walker.

[00:06:41]What? Wow.

[00:06:44]>> The last member is the Benon tree hierax. And I say that because they were discovered in 2021 and it was because of their scream. You see, scientists who weren't even checking for them. They were looking for bush babies.

[00:06:55]>> No one even give a about them.

[00:06:58]It was an accident.

[00:07:00]>> It's a bush baby. but heard enough of this weird barking sound that they eventually isolated and studied it. And these sounds were so distinctive they realized it came from an entirely different species. Mind you, they clocked these calls back in 2009, but the Benin wasn't identified until over a decade later. Imagine screaming for attention for years only to be discovered by accident by people looking for someone else. And apparently, >> isn't that the history of America? Like, no one knew it existed. And one guy tried to go to a completely different continent and completely went the opposite way.

[00:07:32]>> N skulls were already in scientist's possession, but they never noticed cuz in their words, they just assumed they were all the same. Best believe Hyraxes wouldn't be getting this level of disrespect back in the day because Titano Hyrax Ultimus would have been big enough to moan.

[00:07:45]>> Wait, that is the that's that's the original blueprint?

[00:07:50]>> Yeah.

[00:07:50]>> Damn, he looks like even more of a dork here. I know, but hi.

[00:07:54]>> But he >> What is that?

[00:08:01]>> It looks like a It's a second away from going Yes, master.

[00:08:07]What the hell? It's like the eagle of Animal Kingdom.

[00:08:11]>> Ultimate Prime died out and left us with a miscellaneous tater tot. And miscellaneous is the best way to describe the family.

[00:08:18]>> Bro fell off. Okay. Caraxes are part of the Afroaria reunion. And you couldn't pick out a more random assortment of characters on a 3:00 a.m. gas.

[00:08:25]>> What the [ __ ] It scared me.

[00:08:30]>> Are part of the Afroaria reunion. And you couldn't pick out a more random assortment of characters on a 3:00 a.m.

[00:08:35]gas station line. You obviously have the hierax and the elephant.

[00:08:38]>> The sounds it makes and the two buck teeth.

[00:08:43]I'm sorry. It's hilarious.

[00:08:46]>> Along with the group, certain people confuse for mermaids. the manatee and dug gong or or just the sea cows. But you also have my fourth grade fixation, the Artvark, the elephant shrew, which is actually more elephant than shrew. In fact, not even a true shrew. The golden mole, which isn't a true mole. In fact, underground and undercover makes it more of a mole mole. The otter shrew, which is near a true shrew, but what else is new? And the tenri, which is a hedgehog nature tried redrawing from memory.

[00:09:10]>> Huh? What the hell is this? This is like a bat sold hedgehog. Now, the non-evolution folk might have an argument because how do you explain this sober?

[00:09:21]>> I don't know.

[00:09:23]I'mma try. You see, two things happened.

[00:09:25]One was the dinosaur strangle hold on the world was released when a mountainsized meteoric plot device blew their [ __ ] smooth off the senses. In Space Jam terms, the Monstars took a crowbar to the knee and head trimmers to the Achilles, allowing the smaller mamalian Looney Tunes to really get >> the other domino fell long before with Africa separating from the super continent of Gondana, completely isolated until she eventually crashed into Eurasia. I'm not 100% on the dates, but that's still tens of millions of years Africa spent as a massive island.

[00:09:52]And with an even bigger dinosaurized niche left behind, the mammals on it got to work. Think of Australia. You got a max security prison deer, an actual sloth there, e-host des satanas, and many, many more. And they're all cuz marsum all the Australian island had, and those niches were going to be filled somehow. But my favorite example is the fact that Madagascar had no apex big catap predator.

[00:10:14]>> I never seen these trees before either.

[00:10:16]What is that? What? So a steroid mongoose took the spot. What you saw mafia and the afro order was adaptive radiation where a single common ancestor diversified to occupy all the sudden vacancies and Afroaria diversified into straight nonsense. Basically it was the gangled split up of evolution. You can only imagine the reaction the Hierax got at the reunion. I'm sure Titano Hyrax tried their best at the big man's game but getting out competed by those that played the big boy build better at the remaining Hyraxes living in the woodworks like rodents. But you'd expect an imitation rat to belong with the not a shrew, not a mole, and nature's left-handed hedgehog in clay afro insecttoilia. But nah, the hierax got cast in a penongalada portion.

[00:10:57]Penongalada, basically almost unallets.

[00:11:00]Unalits are the many animals that walk on hooves. Yes, that's a whale. The hippoc gave him a guest pass. Having almost hooves means elephants and sea cows have toenails. So does a >> sea cows have toenails?

[00:11:12]>> What the hell?

[00:11:14]>> Not a hoof, but close. They also have the same tusks that were just pimped out in sizers. But hierraxes chew like they were raised by ruminants, chewing from side to side to grind it out like a giraffe. You might not have noticed cuz hyraxes do it so fast. And when's the last time you looked at Hierrax in the mouth? Cuz you might have noticed they look like >> I didn't even know they existed up until today.

[00:11:32]>> They have tiny rhino skulls augmented into their heads. So you see the animal Twitter call just a random thing. It's actually >> Yo, they got absolutely shafted by by evolution. What the hell? So if you feel bad about yourself today, just think about it. You could have been him.

[00:11:50]>> Yeah.

[00:11:51]>> The peak form for the life they lived.

[00:11:53]From the size to the teeth to the toes.

[00:11:55]Speaking of toes, Downboy, those beans have a purpose. And rubbery soles with the concave surface creates a suction cup that's a cheat code for gripping rocks. It's how Rexes can goat and climb vertical surfaces. It's also how hyraxis literally >> climb into our lives. Hierraxes have the habit of hitching rides.

[00:12:14]>> Wait, did he call him Sasuke?

[00:12:17]>> Also, how Hierrax is literally climbing into our lives.

[00:12:20]>> Hierraxes have the habit of hitching rides where nature had not intended. In addition to being captiv copyright infringement, it should be no surprise to see the animal someone called the nepo hire of its family being hard carried by something else. They've also started scoring free rides on something slightly faster than a tortoise. There's a genuine trend of South Africans finding their cars colonized by desis.

[00:12:40]Apparently, the underside of a car is like a wet dream to a crevice merchant.

[00:12:44]And people >> with a face, too.

[00:12:48]Like, this is mine right now.

[00:12:50]>> Accidentally Uber this way across South Africa. And like clockwork, they often don't get noticed until they start screaming or the smell of their excess alerts you. One Hierra spent 4 days as an undercarriage carry-on after joining a family's 2 and 1 half-hour trip from Cedarberg to Warchester. Another family came home from vacation to find four of them splunking in their car engine. And you can't just evict them when you find them cuz desis are highly territorial and getting spawned on enemy grounds will get them mercked by the residents.

[00:13:16]According to the Cape of Good Hope SPCA, if you find a hyrax up your chassis, you do not attempt to remove or else they might show you what that tusk do. Best thing you can do is bait them out with like peanut butter or something and then trap them and wait for your local SPCA to come handle it. But even then, you probably don't want to take matters in your own hands. Not only because you have no way of knowing when or where the hierax hopped on. There's a non-zero chance he doesn't just abandon your car and immediately head for the next one over. Just transferring the problem to someone else. Truly, the best way to help a hierax is to check your car for them before you head out. It's not much different from checking for straight cats under the >> True, true, true, true, true, true, true. Yeah. Yeah, bro. Okay. I didn't even know. I just found out about him and now I found out that they just take your property >> hood during the >> Yeah, >> like rude >> cold times which if you're on the east coast is right now. Pray for me, I am so sick right now. So I wouldn't blame you for thinking hyrax has spawned into our lives out of nowhere. But it's not always by accident. I swear I liked one video one. And now I get videos of this hamster hunculi in people's houses. I had no idea they were so common as pets or legal legality aside. Hierraxes are about as good of pets as you'd expect from a travel-sized rodacious elephant, which is not at all. They're highly social and territorial. They'll hate your house and you'll hate what they do to it, especially with their bathroom habits, which I'm going to get into.

[00:14:34]Just know you will not.

[00:14:38]You're just licking the back of the the back of the ear. What?

[00:14:43]>> Get that smell out. But humans weren't even the first primates to try to turn a hyrax into a house pet. You remember the hierax jump scare that is the western variety? While there's someone that thinks this were mole is cute, chimpanzees have shown a strangely genuine curiosity in this hunk of fur.

[00:14:57]In 1995, researchers came across a group of chimps surrounding a hyrax that had fallen out of a tree. And other than one male slapping the ground as a display and another one poking it with a stick, they just watched it until they eventually lost interest and just left them alone. To be fair, less than 5% of a chimp's diet is meat. But I've seen chimps do raccoons dirty for existing.

[00:15:16]They also hunt bush.

[00:15:19]>> What?

[00:15:21]He just flew.

[00:15:23]>> Bush baby. But somehow a hyrax gets a pass. In 2016, scientists clocked a male chimp with a past tense hierax. And I swear from the way they describe it, he was treating it like a doll, seemingly grooming it, even blowing on its hair.

[00:15:35]And no, he didn't even eat it in the end. But the weirdest case might have been in 2000 when a female chimp adopted one for a day. She carried it around, groomed it, and even spent the night in her nest with it. and spent a total of 15 hours cradling it. And while the high rats was already dead, it wasn't by her.

[00:15:52]>> Um, that information would have been nice to know before effort. I know I'm not supposed to anthropomorphize, but again, I've seen these same apes do Diagoras grizzly, so you're going to have to convince me Caesar and M don't find them cute. But again, you wouldn't really want a Hyrax as a pet. One, cuz their social structures are way too complex. I was not kidding when I said leaving a stallway on foreign turf is like putting a prison green light on them. In a Wawwa of up to 80 H highraxes, the highest rax is a territorial himrax that lords over the females, their young, and any younger males not yet seen as a threat.

[00:16:24]And it's >> they look so cute though. What the hell?

[00:16:28]>> It's usually this top male that's responsible for sentry duty. Basically acting as a lifeguard while the others feed and blaring out an alarm call if he sees a threat like an eagle, which gets all the hieraxis to hightail it. Not only is it uber effective against predators, it's the same way Mircat's manner, but when you look like a hodgepodge of other animals homework, you get no show on how hyraxes happen.

[00:16:48]I'd watch it cuz the drama would go crazy. Those tusks are for more than just attracting mates. You wouldn't know it, but these hyraxes are fighting for their lives, and those teams can tear each other apart and more than barely inconvenience you. Running fades is such a risk that hieraxes have ways to avoid conflict. The main one is by breaking in the song. I'm not even kidding.

[00:17:06]What are they like the nature's bards or something?

[00:17:11]>> Yes.

[00:17:11]>> Same way gorillas beat their chest to advertise size and avoid bites. Male >> you know that would have been more convincing if he wouldn't have fell there.

[00:17:21]>> Do by singing and studies have proven that they'll increase their audible output when there's more stranger neighbor races around which sometimes the strangers respond to. It's their version of a diss track and they take the craft seriously cuz it's also been proven that hyraxes that sing the most and maintain the best rhythm >> that sounds like a bird.

[00:17:38]>> Yeah.

[00:17:38]>> The craft seriously cuz it's also been proven that hieraxes that sing the most and maintain the best rhythm go on to father the most successful offspring. I love the internet cuz there's no other way I'd know this. But it's why male hierraxes sing all year round. And unlike most other animals, they sing as a solo. But they also sing unlike almost any other mammal. Hierraxes sing with syntax. And in casual terms, it means the sounds they sing and the order they sing them in aren't random. They're actually specifically structured with each note purposely sequenced like lyrics. That's something you normally see with birds. And other than whales, bats, and some primates, the hierax is the only mammal found to do this. Which means it's not a stretch to say they have way more complex of language than anyone ever gave.

[00:18:17]>> But why is it so cute though? What the hell is this? It's like a deformed fox baby. It looks like a pug, but if it was not deformed, but still slightly deformed.

[00:18:29]>> What credit for? Especially since Hyrax hymns can go on for minutes and songs even have specific regional dialects.

[00:18:35]Just an effing thing. I think not.

[00:18:37]>> They have dialects. Oh my god.

[00:18:41]What the hell? How did we not know about them before?

[00:18:46]>> Especially since they have a social network we've never seen in another animal, but in humans. Studies show that hyraxes subscribe to the friend of my friend is my friend rule and they'll spread these social ties in a way that creates overall social balance. Not only do hyraxes living like egalitarians live longer and better, it's actually the hierat that was the first non-human animal to be seen with this kind of social structural balance. Yeah, the Oawa did that. Like they'll use the friend of a friend concept to create calculated trios. And it's proven that Hywax groups that do this on a large scale are way more chill and see way less aggression. It's also why I said air dropping one into a new hit. So if you want to have one as a pet, you need to have three. That friend of a friend.

[00:19:25]>> Yeah, >> interesting.

[00:19:27]>> Is assisted sense of subtraction because newcomers immediately invite instability. Although complex social order makes a lot of sense cuz hyraxes have a lot going for them. Keeping themselves warm enough to stay alive ain't one of them. Nature kind of screw them there. So they spend 95% of their time either resting or basking. They're damn near solar powered. They'll also use the Tetris method to stay warm. And when you need cuddle time to survive, it's best to know who your friends are.

[00:19:50]So yeah, there's a lot more to the hierax than being the elephant's understudy. They got their fingerprints in history.

[00:19:55]>> Well, not not their fingers. Animals dragging assets on the ground is nothing new. But recently, the first known fossil of one butt scooting was uncovered from over 120,000 years ago.

[00:20:06]And that autograph belonged to ah their butts tell us a lot more about the >> There's an archaeological finding of a butt scoot. That's what we're researching now. All right.

[00:20:20]>> And it is because they're bathroom habits. See, I told you we were going to get to that. Just had to learn something first. Hierra is all produced in the same place. And these latrines called midens. And while it's another reason why you wouldn't want one in your house, they've actually graffitied entire cliffs with their calcium carbonate pee cuz they pee in one spot and they pee a whole lot. But generations of dropping deuces in the same spot means mittens are stockpiled with hyium, their dried excess. And this hyraium is like the less aesthetic version of amber. But the substance with a race in its name does the exact opposite to history. Studying the poop piles can tell you a lot about the past by preserving time in a way built to last. With some of these mittens going back >> what?

[00:21:00]It's a whole mini mountain of poo poo >> 70,000 years. Hyax is >> Bro, I am so glad I have left the archaeological field.

[00:21:13]Imagine that could have been me right now digging through poop. Digging through historical poop, >> wrap time capsules and fix your face cuz that's not the only use we get out of them. Cuz yeah, I poop has been traditionally used as perfume. It's not super common today, but I'd love for someone to comment and tell me what it smells like. That same hyium has also been used in traditional medicines to treat issues like epilepsy. Are you now seeing how lousy the internet's doing this animal? They are so much more than a filler character on Noah's Arc. You don't even have to care about them. But if you care about the Arabian leopard, one of the closest to being discontinued cats, then you should probably know that a big part of their diet is the racks. I feel bad for them being this weird of an animal just to be called a bare minimum's got to be a kick in the balls.

[00:21:51]Good thing theirs are on the inside. And that's going to do it for this video.

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[00:22:10]I am so glad I clicked on this video. I am genuinely so glad about this.

[00:22:20]>> Little baby.

[00:22:22]>> Yeah. No, I'm very happy I clicked on this video because uh I did not know that this nerd existed and I love it.

[00:22:32]How many of you knew that they existed without lying? Like be honest. How many of you knew he existed?

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