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Wait you're only 23?

Heck yes!

@9:56 gummie land whale*

What if it isn't farts but Hippo diarrhea? Then there would be no bubbles. If it is diarrhea, this could explain why wildlife biologists are having such a hard time pinning down the source of the sound. Have you ever tried to pin down diarrhea? Let alone diarrhea underwater in a river? I expect an answer by Monday.

I remember reading that hippos were the one animal Steve Irwin refused to get near to. That's how unpredictably violent they are.

Yet a small stingray killed him. Sad

Same with cassowaries. If Steve wouldn’t go near it, neither should you.

Guess you should be casso-wary...kill me.

​@StillMe well, to my knowledge, it shouldn't have attacked him, & he knew how to handle it, but the camera crew startled it, & it panicked & defended itself.

Being related to dolphins really explains the unquenchable thirst for violence

Lol

And orcas.

Really?! Dolphins are violent?😮

​@Keyur Parikh I really hope this is sarcasm but if not just look up dolphin mating habits

The part where the hippo is baring its teeth at the rhino to try and use its intimidation factor is hilarious once you're aware of how weak a rhino's vision and intellect are. Hippo: "COME AT ME BRO" Rhino: "I literally can't see anything, so I'm just going to impale you until you go away"

Hippo: COME AT ME BRO Rhino: (in the style of King Shark) Horn!

"Grr I'm big and scary" "What is that, a weird rock?"

@Generic Name A weird & stinky rock, would prolly captivate then aggravate a rhino

Hippo: The MURRAY is stronger than a rhino! Rhino: There IS no one my size, pauk.

Rhinos having bad vision is actually a myth. Their eyes are about as good as a cat or a rabbit, which for mammals is pretty good.

Telling the hippopotamisses from the hippopotamisters broke me. Great job. Love this channel and wish you could narrate all sorts of things.

Yeah, that was delightful

I liked the bit about the mom hippopotamus teaching the baby how to hippopotam.

boo be original, stop taking someones work

I am highly perplexed by your name.

I grew up in a small town called Richard's Bay in South Africa, a place known for their hippos and crocodiles. It's a coastal town. However, there are lakes in which hippos reside, and they ran down to the sea. One time, my friend and I planned to swim across a closed area of sea, sort of like a mini-man-made bay. We knew to keep away from the lakes, which were relatively close by as we didn't have a death wish. We started to swim. About half way into our swim we heard this clicking sound under water. We both stopped and looked at eachother puzzled but we couldn't see anything around us so we just brushed it off. We continued to swim and that clicking sound persisted. We stopped again and, I shit you not, about 10 meters from us we saw that familiar hidden face just chilling out the water. Scariest moment of my life. We grow up knowing that hippos have killed more people than any other land animal and knew we were in serious trouble. In that moment, I knew that if the hippo wanted to kill us, it already would have. So my friend and I, without trying to rush, just swam to the nearest land. I have no idea how we made it out out alive but we survived. Honestly thought I was going to die that day. It's true what Zefrank says about their unpredictable nature. I'm sure if it was a young bull, or a mother with her pup, we wouldn't have lived to tell the tale

I love these recountings of real life.

I would suspect that wasn't the hypo's usual turf, so they might have been in a less "this is my space and feel like asserting dominance" mood, and more of a "what is this place and whare those weird things over there, oh they don't seem to even notice me, oh now they're leaving... alright then, back to figuring the rest of this place out" mood. Or maybe it was just luck, that is the thing about unpredictability, sometrimes you get muder tank, sometimes you get just chilling here tank.

Holy sh!t... You swam in Hippo/Crocodile infested waters? Evel Knievel's got nothing on you.

Holy crap. If I didn’t have an immediate heart attack from the sheer terror of that realization, I’d have still required rescuing because I’d have frozen in place, incapable of even blinking. I love the heck out of hippos but, If it had been me, I’d have been praying like hell that I was just seeing a great white or a tiger shark. And I’m not even religious. Wow… congrats on your survival. Whew! 😅

I got chased by a hippo near the Limpopo river when I was young. A true come to Jesus moment and probably the fastest I've gone up a tree in my life. At 12 years old I just remembered my grandad telling me there's no way you can outrun them so get high and stay put till they get bored and go away or help arrives. Eventually the hippo just moved on but I stayed up there a good fifteen to twenty minutes and only came down when my friends were calling for me. Yes, we were unsupervised. I recounted this to one of the locals with a farm bordering the Limpopo and he said I probably got near a calf and momma wasn't happy about it. I'd heard the pod some way off so I never expected to run into a solitary cow and her calf 😂 My family didn't hear this story until I was well into my twenties.

I appreciate the fact that he always includes his sources and includes a works cited bit in the credits. Makes it easier to do research on your own ❤

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I absolutely love Ze's little "kill me" whenever he makes a pun

This one was especially perfect.

yep

I'm just absolutely blown away he doesn't mention the obvious factoid that they're the most deadly animal in Africa haha, a lot of people know that but it's still pretty big and interesting But yeah haha it's like he has to make them but it's painful to do so

Same ironically it killed me 🤣🤣

The best part is that that is mixed with him being really proud of his stupid puns 1 minute later.

“It’s a sad thing but a true thing” I can’t recall a time I’ve heard such genuine pain in his voice

Can I just say thank you for giving credit to the Biologists who helped. So many truly great minds never get the recognition they deserve.

Don’t forget about et-Al. 😂😂😂 He’s on all the credits

He wouldn’t have any integrity if he didn’t so it’s not something he really needs to be thanked for but go you!

​@Maddie B. Bro they're just saying they appreciate it

ZeFrank might have the mind of a horny smirking adolescent but he's still a class act. It's not always obvious but he does a lot of teaching there in between the laughs and without the scientists he wouldn't be able to do that. He never fails to credit the research and scientists he cites in his videos. Funny or not these are wildlife documentary videos every bit as much as one by David Attenborough.

HIGHLY recommend that anyone who wants more baby hippo footage look up the journey of Fiona from the Ohio Zoo. She was born prematurely and the zoo staff basically had to forge brand new hippo care methods to keep her alive long enough to reunite with adult parents. Really cutting-edge zoo science. And she was adorable, too. They were very successful. She's a teenager now, basically, and she has a little brother.

Seriously, he makes me actually laugh out loud every single time without fail. “Kom-poop-cha.” Priceless.

To this day pretty much every single one of his "...butt, sorry, ..., but" - jokes makes me laugh. What can i say, i guess i´m pretty easily entertainted... 😅

Can we take a moment to appreciate Jerry? He may not get it right all of the time, but he's been writing and editing for over a decade.

"I did that for you, Jerry" nearly a decade of character growth has brought us to this point

I laughed so hard at that!

You know, Jerry tries for us, and that needs to be rewarded every now and then

you and Casual Geographic should TOTALLY do a video together, you both crack me up and inform me at the same time.

Yeeeeesssssss

I totally second this. I don't know how they will, because theirtone of humor differs a bit from each-other, but this is totally something that should happen.

@Little Witch 小巫婆 the difference is EXACTLY why i think it would work, frank has more of a dry humor where as Casual is more dark and they both work very well together

I don't know how the styles would mash. I guess cg could do interjected commentary or zf could do a video on "biologist" as a species and include cg among others. I'd totally donate footage of my nerd house with it's microscope, strange sanitation that looks unsanitary and ultra fancy pet snake enclosure. Lol. Biologist/zoologist(older title starting to get used again) are a special breed.

@Darcie Clements i think CG could be a better version of Jerry, could work

A moment of silence for the unfortunate gazelle at 10:57 that ran into a mud pool to get away from a pack of wild dogs only to be shredded by a fellow herbivore, nature is beautiful😢

Nature has no mercy

As sad as it is to see, I'd rather be killed by a hippo and then be eated by wild dogs than be killed by the dogs. I love them but they can't kill by suffocation like a lion or a leopard, they start ripping apart and eating as soon as they can

I remember watching True Facts about the Seahorse. Hard to believe that was 10 years ago! Thanks for the decade of entertainment ❤

Wait what?? We been with ze frank for so long?? Wow, he's been doing this since 13. A legend

You are a national fucking treasure, dude. I remember fending your website when I was a teenager, and how much the wisdom you shared on it helped me get through that period of my life. Now you create these lovely, hilarious videos that millions of people see and love. Thank you so much for existing; you don't suck at life. ❤

I was a huge fan of Animal Planet when I was a kid. Your channel makes me feel like I'm 10 years old watching those shows again. You're like a more comedic, adult-oriented version of Animal Planet.

"Nope honey, that's a crocodile. Hot! Hot!" As a mom, I felt that.

I would think it's the other way round. The croc's probably thinking; "Dear God, I need to heat up so I can run away. Damnit, sun work faster!"

"Learning best how to hippopotam." In a video full of excellent lines this was my favorite.

yeah, it give me a strange sensation like wholesome, funny, weird, but also obvious and inevitable

Fun fact, my dad used to jokingly add hippopotamus to my name when I was a kid (apparently I was adorable like a baby hippo (and they are pretty adorable)). This video coming out a few days before my birthday feels like a early birthday present and I'm so happy about that.

I love learning about nature but I always struggle with viewing animal death (which obviously is a big part of life in the wild). Thank you so much for including the part about the male hippos and the babies BUT having it blurred. The knowledge was absorbed without being soul crushing👍👍

"it's a sad thing, but a true thing" Might as well be life's motto

motto motto?

Too true. Almost a Vonnegut.

And yet, Americans demand that all of their movies have a happy ending.

​@John Smith More like Dr Seuss.

Don't F with big chungus

This is the best nature documentary format to ever exist, combining extreme novelty with good humor and grotesquely chilled medieval flutes concert and a voiceover impersonation of Sir David Attenborough. Very well done.

I thought it was Morgan Freeman!

I cannot recall the last time Ze Frank had so much fun mocking an animal. It was nice seeing him enjoy it this much.

Love this. My favorite fact about the hippo is that it RUNS through the water and the water better get the heck out of the way if it knows what's good for it. They actually wear down trails that change the course of rivers. Amazing.

Oh, Hi! Crazy seeing you here! This video made me want to make a Giff

I thought it was touching how you were able to address some very harsh realities in a very compassionate, but still very light way.

Loved the ear twirling, and that mucus /sweat/sunscreen! 😮 Amazing! "They also have a weaponized face" 😄 "Learning how best to hippopotam"

One day, I would like to see Jerry do an entire episode all by themselves. If possible, release it on April 1st.

Is Jerry’s pronoun ‘they?’😊

So tomorrow?

​@NHMO OYTIS them pronouns got outta hand

@Marcelino Kwiek it’s OK for someone to use THEY if they have a tapeworm 😂

10 minutes of dead silence over some really bonkers footage. Then Ze comes in at the end and is like "What are you doing, Jerry? Recording? They can't hear you, Jerry, you don't have a voice."

A couple decades back I was leaving the San Diego zoo one evening and I passed by the Hippo habitat. They were very active so people were pausing to watch them on our way out. It was really cool until we all had a close up underwater view of a hippo taking an poo. We all moved on towards the exit after that. 😂

But it's an environmentally healthy poo. You should check out Fiona, she's a hippo celebrity.

@Matt Morehouse if i went and took a shit in my neighbors garden itd be a environmentally healthy poo too, but lets just say people dont tend to want to watch such things😂

It seems to me that your respect and wonder for the life around us has grown over the years, yet your childlike wonder and sense of humor remains. I’m here for it.

These never disappoint - good information and humor all rolled into one.

All things considered, I think that lion at the end got off pretty frickin easy. He could've ended up with a broken spine and/or other broken bones but he didn't actually look that worse for wear after he got away. Lol. Probably had a heart attack from the whole thing though. I love how his friend didn't even keep swimming the same direction, he was just like "NOPE I'M OUT."

I know the reaction of the other lion made it so much funnier 🤣

I did not know hippos are land whales, nor manatees are aquatic elephants. You truly are an educator.

After being blessed with the "oppih", we finally get a True Facts about its closest relative and one of my favorite animals. And as always, Ze Frank doesn't disappoint.

Its actually marking the end of covid-era Zefrank. Oppih was made out of his boredom for doing the distancing

I miss the oppih. Such a majestic creature

GET THAT BOTTER BANNED

This is the second comment that has informed me of the "oppih." I know I absolutely must be missing something now...

Your power to make education amusing is phenomenal! Thank you, ZeFrank, for everything you do!

Amazing as always Ze! That really is fascinating about how their poop affects their environment!

Thank you for continuing to make and share all kinds of hilarious and informational content after all these years. You're the only OG youtuber still at it. Thank you for everything!

When I was in Uganda wih my university class of Tropical ecology, we'd spend the evening looking at the river far down below and play "Hippo or croc?" Where we'd spot a figure in the water placed bets on whether it was a hippo or a crocodile and then used our binoculars or telescopic cameras and check. It was fun!

You never fail to entertain me. Your voice, and humor, combined with education. Plus, you make a story about the whole subject. I wish I had you as my natural science teacher in school.

Everytime Ze utters the word "babeh", an angel gets its wings.

Yesssss!!!! 😂❤

This is one of the best episodes in a long time. I had to pause several times to let the laughing subside

😂 I love watching your videos. Never ceases to make me laugh. You’re narrating style makes them easy to understand and watch. Far from boring.

I absolutely love your videos!!!! Thank you for making learning so much fun. We all enjoy it very much.

As I've always said, your content is just an another level from all these youtubers, you can literally have your own documentary series on a network.

I just found one of your other channels. I stand in total awe that so much good intention can be carried by one human. Thank you.

Truly hope that you, Mr. Ze Frank, enjoy these videos as much as the millions of us. They only continue to get better.

Yeah the original stuff was already amazing but it really feels like he's refined his art this past year since he's been back

Literally millions, it's mind blowing

@Jacob Morehouse BIG time!

Amen to that!!!🎉

The Duck

Great video as always! Have been watching your content for well over a decade now! Super greatful for the time you put into these!

This is some of the best raw footage you've had in a while, and that's not to belittle previous episodes. Thanks, academia!

I'm learning so much and laughing my ass off! What an amazing video. I really love the parts with really bad puns that are so bad they become so good.

man i just feel your hidden under the carpet happiness, like on a global positive scale, you're such a great persona and whatever life brought upon you you came out with such deep undestanding of things, you're contribution is such a gift

I find it funny how the lion at the end sounded like he was initially going for intimidation but then very, very quickly switched to panic.

Some additional information on hippo’s phylogeny: Not only are whales their closest living relatives, they are also more closely related to ruminants such as bovines, sheep, deer, and giraffes, than they are related to pigs. Also something I love is that the clade that includes both cetaceans and hippos is called Whippomorpha.

Whippimorpha is so pleasant to say thank you

Wait, I thought they were closer to odd-toed ungulates. Have I been mistaken the all this time?

@Dessa I'm just glad koalas and 3 toed sloths are kept out of the pecking order!

​@Charli Espinoza it's also a great name for a band!

I enjoy this knowledge. Thank you.

Another theater of natural comedic masterpiece. I cannot stop laughing my backside off. I keep having to echo-locate the gluteus maximus, hippopotamus style, and reattach quickly before it falls off again. 👏 👏 👏 Bravo 👏 👏 👏

the Hippopotamus is my favorite animal so this one was an extra pleasure to watch, thanks for always making great videos!

Thank you so much man,... The last 2 months have very rough, I lost the only mom I've known and my dad, also having to move on top of it all and just really needed something to laugh at .. I'm still learning things that I didn't know but at the same time getting a good laugh in so thank you for being there!

Hey, I'm sorry to read that. If you'd like virtual hugs from an internet stranger, I got one for you. 🤗

@Hannah Schneyder I accept all hugs, thank you so much, it has been an emotional couple of months for sure, and on top of losing both parents, our apt was in mom's name, so we had to move out, we could have kept it but decided the price was not worth it especially when we took jobs that would allow us to be home during the day, plus my boyfriend was packing and moving while dealing with the pain.. Again tho, it's been rough so I'll take all the hugs I can get 🙂

Oh the jokes were on POINT in this one, sir!! Perfectly acceptable to verbally pat yourself on the back for coming up with them. 😂😂😂 Great vid, great information-as always! ❤

I absolutely cannot avoid smiling (and laughing loud enough to scare my dog) when I watch these. Ze Frank must be protected at all costs.

Keep him away from the hippos, then.

Is there a threat that we are unaware of? Do you have some critical intelligence suggesting his safety is compromised? TELL US!

Remember when there was a few years hiatus... The world sucked ever so slightly more as a whole during those times

@Brittany I'm not too sure that it's the hippos we need worry about! Its Jerry that's the REAL danger!

You are my favorite narrator ever. The things you come up with are so creative and funny! This is how to do it- people learn while being entertained.

Thank you for your videos. Many times they have made life so much easier by reminding me to not be too serious, and to lighten up and laugh. Thank you thank you!!

Ze, you're amazing. Just when you think it couldn't get any better. This is now one of my favourites. I had to pause and rewind so many times to catch up with my giggle-fits! :D

I haven't heard a single word from Jerry but he's still my favorite part of this show

Frank? Please never stop making these. These videos are comfort food for my everything. You're like one of the few things in this world and in my life that I genuinely appreciate and love to just watch endlessly.

Been waiting on this one!

Ah, two animal content titans! Love you guys!

The crossover i desperately needed

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Yaaaay collab please ✊✊✊✊

I actually pogged irl

Hey Ze Frank, great video as usual. Would love to see one from you about vultures and buzzards! I absolutely love your videos, joined Curiosity Stream! Great rec :D

I just found this channel and it's an instant favorite. Facts and humor put together so well that is quite scary.

This guy never fails me to laugh and learn at the same time 😂😆

God I love these videos! Thank you for taking the chance on this when you first decided to make these videos. Gongrats on your success. Much deserved sir.

Hilarious as always. My mom is a big hippo person (or should I say a big fan of hippos?) and she loved it too and asked if you had a video on bears to which I had to say no. Perhaps it's time to give the big furry bears (the animal just to be clear) some love?

We're reaching 'Dad Joke' critical mass. And I'm here for it.

l put my hamster in a sock and slammed it against the furniture

@TippyHippy Nah bruh

Ya, the puns were full tilt haha

@Kaveman I report them whenever I see that comment.

You are HILARIOUS! And very informative. This is one of the best wildlife shows - and I grew up on Mutual of Omaha's 'Wild Kindom'! Marlin Perkins was never this funny. Thank you. 😂

I don't think I've ever learned so much about hippos in such a short space of time. Bravo.

This is definetly my new favourite true facts video, made me laugh so much!! ❤

My favorite hippo fact is that they are not fat at all - their bodies are almost solid muscle, with only about 2% body fat, significantly less than even the most athletic humans. They look big and round because that's just the shape of hippo muscles, and the only reason you can't see the definition is because they have extremely thick skin (about 2-6 inches thick) covering it.

Please make a video on the Hoatzin bird!!! It's a bird with no living (known) relative, whose chicks have dinosaur like claws on their wings and are capable of swimming, climbing and walking on all fours (when little). They also have a unique digestive system and are a true mystery among avian species :)

That last shot with the lion really does show their true size and strength. Amazing work and amazing animals!

the lion got lucky

Then the one shot with the rhino really makes you go sh in thinks are huge Then there's the African elephants ...

Vegan power yo. Lions aint got shit on hippos gorillas etc

​@ANIMAL LOVERS DONT KILL&EAT ANIMALS🤍ʕ•ᴥ•ʔif you eat tougher stuff . . .not much tougher than plant matter, they so unbothered that they never even evolved the ability to run from predators😂

This was one of the first times I have ever laughed uncontrollably by myself at a YouTube video in literally YEARS. Your other True Facts are amazing, but the level of dad joke, inappropriateness, and self-satisfaction were *chef’s kiss*. While the video about mosquitoes is still my absolute favorite in terms of knowledge:funny ratio, this one is so far your peak in outright comedy, as far as I’m concerned. Masterful.

Ze Frank, I love all of your stuff......I learn and crack up laughing every single time 😂

I laughed so hard sometimes I thought I might be having a medical problem. Thank you.

This was pretty entertaining and informative, great video clips. Was hoping for more footage of them fighting and mating.

My wish is for this man and Casual Geographic to team up for one wild information filled video, how much to make it happen folks

Whales and Hippos being related is the biggest mindfuck of my day

Imagine if whales had adapted to grow legs

The elephants and dugong thing was what got me

@Frosty the Snowman Whale ancestors were literally the hairy mammalian version of crocodiles before they lost their hind legs.

Do you know about the Rock Hyrax (Dassie)? Closest living relative is the elephant.

I would like to see a video educating about the Hoatzin bird. Things a darn modern day pterodactyl. Also, love the content, watch it with the whole fam. Please, never stop.

This day you have channelled into your work the spirit of Terry Pratchett. It is glorious and I love it!

That was great! You've outdone yourself this time. I had a lot of good laughs. Thanks!

That was hands down hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny and downright BRILLIANT. SO FECKING GOOD ZEFRANK. Thank you :)

Dude I could die happy after this video lol you never disappoint Ze

That second lion at the end abandoned his buddy so fast. "Good luck with the giant angry potato, Dave! I'm heading out!"

"Angry potato". Perfect descriptor!

He went to look for an empty giraffe

He took the bear attack analogy literally there.

To be fair, that's not cowardice. It's just common sense. No one can blame the buddy for abandoning Dave to his fate. Not even Dave.

And after the hippo chased Dave away: "YEAH! And STAY out!!!"

I have learned more from Ze Franc than ever did in school! Awesome videos!

I saw a documentary where they dissected a hippo and there isn't much fat in them. Most of that bulk is their gut. They need it to digest the vegetation they eat. The documentary series also dissected an elephant. Those were REALLY long intestines. Inside Nature's Giants. A lot of the data is outdated now but the dissections will never get old. My fav. are the 2 whale dissections.

One of my favorite examples of the hippo being notoriously violent and lethal comes from big game hunting. In the hunting community, Africa had the “Big Five” game animals that were known for being extremely difficult and dangerous to hunt. These were the elephant, lion, cape buffalo, black rhino, and leopard. The only reason why the hippo isn’t on the list with these other animals is that they are on a different league compared to them and that nobody was crazy enough to try and hunt a hippo

I would love a collaboration between ZeFrank and Casual Geographic, ZeFrank imparting info and dad jokes and CG reacting to it with his killer comments.

One of the best nature docu/muckoumentaries out there. Keep it up!!

One day, I would like to have the same job security as Jerry.

Whatever dirt he has on Ze must be truly terrifying. Or gross, can't decide which.

Lmao😂

@MoultrieGeeks probably it is something on exact opposite end

You mean be drunk at work all day while your boss repeatedly asks you not to say 'dick' in every other paragraph? Yeah that's basically the dream!! ☺️

One day, we will hear the tale of how Jerry saved Zefrank's life, creating a bond that would last forever and overcome all forces. Up to and including Jerry's rampant idiocy.

OMG! 😂so funny and entertaining. I love listening to Zefrank and his narratives. If only he had been around when I was in college. All the science courses would have been hysterical and educational. Love that guy.😅😊

Also, would love to see a video on a kiwi bird. Mostly because I can already imagine some of the conversion with Jerry

I am still amazed, all these years later, by how much MORE I learn about wildlife from Zefrank than I ever have NatGeo, Discovery, or school. And, of course, Zefrank makes it hilarious. If this were my high school biology class, I would've paid more attention! Hahahaha!

Woah, zefrank has been putting quality content on Youtube since he was 6 years old. What an inspiration.

I think this is the most excited he's been in a while to narrate this. He sounds so genuinely excited.