We Flipped 100 Rocks in Arizona's Secret Islands

Описание: We're in the little known Sky Islands of Arizona, flipping rocks in search of this region's rarest, most understudied, and most fascinating animals. The Sky Islands are a chain of remote montane forests running from the southwestern US through northern Mexico, and because of their isolation due to the deserts that surround each mountain, the animals that live there are essentially trapped on the slopes, forming a unique ecosystem full of wildlife you won't find anywhere else on Earth. Today, we're going to track down and document as many of them as we can for our life list.

We have been life-listing for most of our lives, at its core it's the activity of documenting every animal species we've ever successfully identified in the wild, and we're compiling all of our records and footage into an eventual database and website called the Biodiversity Library. We want this to be an educational and inspirational resource for everyone, scientists, educators, artists, and wildlife lovers alike. We're focusing our videos much more on our life-listing efforts going forward, and we'd love to hear any and all feedback you have about this pivot and what you'd like to see us do with it!

This mission was as incredible as it was thanks to the incredible knowledge, skills, and dedication of Spencer ‪@MyWildBackyard‬ and Donny ‪@thewildfilesofficial‬, full stop. These guys are the real deal, passionate educators and captivating storytellers, and if you like what we do here, you will love everything they do on their channels. Go subscribe to them and check out all their amazing work!

If anyone can decode all the references in the inside joke at the end, you win. I don't know what you won, but you definitely did.

All video footage on this channel is filmed in the wild by us, unless otherwise credited. No AI generated content of any kind is ever used on our channel. Additional still images are courtesy of Fair Use and Wikimedia Commons, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... ). We can't thank the artists enough for their generosity in sharing their work, they're listed here in order of appearance: Andrei Savitsky, Marshal Hedin, Matt Becker, Helmwige, and Katya Schulz. Range maps are courtesy of iNaturalist, the citizen science organism observation database.

Music:
All music is courtesy of Envato Elements, all songs are fully licensed.

Please do not attempt to reenact or recreate any events or scenes from our videos. All animal interactions on this channel are performed by wildlife professionals, and we routinely receive assistance from local wildlife experts and guides during production. All necessary medical precautions were taken to ensure the safety of the hosts and crew. All animals featured are wild and are always released immediately after filming. No animals were harmed, removed from the wild, injured, or killed in the production of this video.

Welcome to The Wildlife Brothers channel! We are Harrison and Evan Black, passionate zoologists and conservationists, and it is our ambition to educate and inspire people to conserve our world's wildlife! It has always been our dream to get people excited about wildlife, from the local animals in your backyard to the endangered species in dire need of our help.

By bringing our passion, knowledge, and skills onto a global platform we hope to introduce you to the wildlife we love, and start a conversation that will help make a difference in protecting the natural world. The time to act is now, so join us as we explore our world's ecosystems and encounter the incredible species that call them home! We're glad to have you with us, so let's get going!